The presented last week smartphones iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus significantly different from its predecessors, but Apple and its partners managed to keep production costs at about the same level.
According to preliminary estimates of analysts Bank of America Merrill Lynch, the cost of a 64-gigabyte model iPhone 6s in view of materials, assembly, packaging and testing is about $ 234. This figure does not include costs for software and hardware development. For comparison, the cost of iPhone 6 with the same amount of internal memory is $ 222.8.
The display remains the most expensive component of the smartphone Apple. 4.7-inch screen mounted in the iPhone 6s, also includes touch sensors 3D Touch and mechanisms for force feedback. Its cost is about $ 50, while the iPhone display 6 manages Apple's $ 41. But A9 processor was cheaper than its predecessor. Chip made by Samsung's 14-nanometer process technology FinFET, costs about $ 25, while the A8, manufactured by TSMC, at the beginning of its life cycle costing American giant $ 37. The cost of LTE-modem and transceiver chips is still around $ 36.
By the way, the developer Hamza Sood found in Xcode confirmation that the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus got 2 GB of RAM, and iPad Pro - 4 GB. But the type of memory used is not specified. Recall in the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus is set to 1 GB of RAM type LPDDR3.
Last weekend, in 12 countries opened the first wave receiving pre-orders for iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. Contents can be online in the Apple Store in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Singapore, UK and USA. .
Apparently, half the order for production of A9 processors for a new iPhone has won the South Korean company Samsung, which offered lower prices than the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), which got the other half. However, the Taiwanese company TSMC will be the exclusive supplier of processors A10, the production of which will be launched in March next year. The new chip, according to DigiTimes, finds its application in the iPhone 7, the launch of which will be held in the third or fourth quarter of 2016. Related Products :
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