Apple, Qualcomm Hearing Hinges on 5G and National Security
- Qualcomm seeks to ban imports of Apple phones with Intel chips
- Apple says Qualcomm charges too much, makes unfair demands
A Qualcomm Inc. baseband modem integrated circuit (IC) chip, bottom, of an Apple Inc. iPhone 6 smartphone is seen in an arranged photograph.
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Apple Inc. must persuade a U.S. trade judge that iPhones containing Intel Corp. chips should be allowed into the country, even if they infringe a Qualcomm Inc. patent.
That’s the challenge facing the world’s largest publicly-traded company, laid out Friday in a U.S. International Trade Commission hearing in Washington, part of a long-running legal battle between Apple and Qualcomm.