Usually, when Apple changes a component supplier, that company has to accept the inevitable, even at huge cost, as the demise of Imagination Technologies, after Apple switched to an inhouse graphics processor core, showed. But as Intel takes more slots in the iPhone – and is the only modem supplier in the new iPhone XS – Qualcomm is on the attack, hurling yet another lawsuit at its former friend. The string of legal actions between the two companies have greater significance for the wider industry than the usual patent licensing disputes that erupt in the handset space. Apple is leading the charge to break Qualcomm’s famous licensing model – something other companies have wanted to do, but have lacked the…