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modem

[moh-duhm, -dem] / ˈmoʊ dəm, -dɛm /


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With Qualcomm specifically, investors have also worried that the company was losing business with modem customers Apple and Samsung Electronics.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026

On the variable cost side of the coin, spending on graphics processing units and data centers, as well as massive electricity bills, are sending tech companies’ capital-light models the way of the dial-up modem.

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

Designed to keep desktop PCs going briefly after an outage occurs, these extra-chunky power strips can keep a modem running for hours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026

Also, it’s easy to forget that your Wi-Fi router is plugged into a modem, usually in some far corner of the house.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026

It was a surprisingly new-looking door, modem and ill-fitting in a place that otherwise seemed so historic.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

But Apple has been weaning itself off Qualcomm, replacing it with its homegrown modems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

This comes as Apple continues to transition away from Qualcomm modems that have typically been used in iPhones.

From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026

The actual road that led Redick to the Lakers has been lined with coaxial cables, modems and Wi-Fi signals, and is painfully and, at times, beautifully structureless.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2024

That, plus subsequent cases, eventually would help popularize the internet — jacking early modems into the telephone system — and the legal breakup of the AT&T/Bell monopoly.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

I was thirty-seven, more efficient than in college, tied to computers and modems and cell phones.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom


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