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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

For Comcast customers who lease an Advanced Xfinity Gateway modem, there’s an integrated Wi-Fi motion sensor.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 21, 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

“In-housing more chip design is the most obvious lever for Apple to pull with respect to product gross margins and we think the 5G modem chip is the most likely candidate,” wrote Daryanani.

From Barron's Jan. 7, 2026

Our new school is a modem one-story yellow brick building that looks like a post office.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

The chip maker produces modem systems for iPhones, and Apple is now producing its own modems, with more advanced systems potentially on the way.

From Barron's Jan. 9, 2026

Later, I worked on modems at Bell Labs, funded by a government-mandated monopoly’s profits.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 19, 2025

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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