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Starting with 2015 iPhone models, Apple may use its custom radio chips, Digitimes reveals, as the company is apparently forming an RD team to work on baseband chips, which are responsible for handling wireless connectivity on a handset including cellular radios responsible for LTE. Designed by Apple, these chips would be built by Samsung Electronics and Globalfoundaries, according to “industry sources.” The publication also mentions that while a different rumor says Apple wants to include the application processor and the baseband processor into a single system-on-chip (SoC) in the future, “it is more likely that Apple will continue to use discrete baseband chips.” The company is currently using baseband chips made by Qualcomm for existing iPhone models. Qualcomm, which currently