Apple’s expansion into inhouse silicon has been steadily impacting on more and more elements within the iPhone, going back to its development of its own mobile processor and graphical processing unit. This has hit former third party suppliers from Samsung to Imagination Technologies to Qualcomm, and Broadcom may be the latest to suffer. Reports have surfaced that Apple will develop its own WiFi/Bluetooth connectivity, which would oust Broadcom from that iDevice element. Broadcom also supplies some RF front end elements, notably the mid/high-band attenuator (MHB PAD), though it is less clear that Apple would bring those components inhouse. Apple signed a 3.5-year deal with Broadcom, in early 2020, for WiFi and Bluetooth chips. This was reportedly worth some $15bn, covering…