| Date | Title | Description |
| Sign up to see | Sign up to see | Sign up to see |
| Sep 21, 2016 | Apple A10 teardown sheds light on quad-core SoC, confirms Intel won modem contract | Every time a new Apple device ships, it’s interesting to see how manufacturing technology has advanced. This year is no exception. The Apple device teardown revealed a number of interesting details and confirmed a rumor we’d heard before — ... |
| Sep 16, 2016 | There’s an Intel modem and an extremely skinny A10 chip inside the iPhone 7 | While the rest of the iPhone obsessed world was getting ready to stand in line or just impatiently waiting for their pre-order to arrive, the teams at iFixit and Chipworks were sharpening their tools like underfed lumberjacks sitting down t... |
| Sep 16, 2016 | Chipworks iPhone 7 Teardown Confirms Intel's Big Victory in the World's Top Smartphone
Categories
Search | In May Patently Apple posted a report titled "Intel has Reportedly Won Apple's Modem Chip Business for the iPhone 7." Then in June we reported that the rumor was confirmed. The report noted that "Orders from Apple represent t... |
| Sep 16, 2016 | iPhone 7 teardowns: Big Taptic Engine, Intel modems, waterproofing, and more | reader comments 139 with 64 posters participating, including story author
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
The iPhone 7 Plus, exploded.
iFixit
The new Taptic Engine is way bigger than the old one.
iFixit
H... |
| Mar 31, 2016 | iPhone SE Teardown Reveals It's A Combo Of iPhone 5s And iPhone 6/6s | Ted Ranosa, Tech Times 31 March 2016, 10:03 am
A recent teardown of an iPhone SE has revealed the new Apple smartphone operates using a logic board filled with a combination of new chips and parts from other iPhone models.
Tech website Chip... |
| Mar 31, 2016 | Apple's Chip Orders for Q2 are Lowest in Years
Categories
Search | A new supply chain report this morning is claiming that chip orders from Apple for the second quarter are markedly lower to those in the same quarter in previous years. Overall chip orders placed by Apple for the second quarter will only be... |
| Mar 18, 2016 | Apple Supplier Broadcom may be Phasing out of Wi-Fi Business
Categories
Search | Apple has used Broadcom Wi-Fi solutions for Apple Watch and the iPhone over time, but according to a new supply chain report, that may be coming to an end. The report notes that Broadcom is looking to phase out its Wi-Fi chip business in a ... |
| Feb 26, 2016 | How to Destroy Pandora's iPhone | Director James Comey claims that the FBI is simply carrying out a diligent investigation in San Bernardino. Put bluntly, I doubt this for two reasons. First, the FBI and public already has enough knowledge to know there is likely no valuabl... |
| Nov 30, 2015 | Apple’s A9X has a 12-core GPU and is made by TSMC | Enlarge / A die shot of the A9X. The ratio of GPU to CPU is becoming pretty insane.
Chipworks via AnandTech reader comments 94 with 42 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
Further Reading... |
| Oct 8, 2015 | Apple: Data shows TSMC and Samsung iPhone 6S models have similar battery life | Enlarge / Chipworks confirms that both Samsung and TSMC are manufacturing subtly different A9 processors for Apple.
Chipworks reader comments 80 with 67 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Redd... |
| Oct 2, 2015 | While TSMC is seen as a Leading A10 Chip Supplier in 2016, keep an eye on GlobalFoundries Future Moves
Categories
Search | There was a battle throughout the year as to who would gain the bulk of Apple's A9 business. The war in the news got so crazy at one point that we posted a report titled "No One Seems to Know who Won Apple's iPhone Chip Business,"... |
| Sep 30, 2015 | iPhone 6s Has Two Kinds Of A9 Chips: One By Samsung, One By TSMC | Sumit Passary, Tech Times 30 September 2015, 06:09 am
The latest iPhone 6s and the iPhone 6s Plus have started to make their way to customers since Sept. 25. The new iPhones run on the A9 chip, which has been supplied by two manufacturers.
... |
| Sep 28, 2015 | Chipworks: Both Samsung and TSMC are making the A9 chip for Apple | Enlarge / Chipworks confirms that both Samsung and TSMC are manufacturing subtly different A9 processors for Apple.
Chipworks reader comments 65 with 46 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Redd... |
| Aug 27, 2015 | Xiaomi’s reported move to in-house chips could spell trouble for Qualcomm | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Fresh reports (link in Chinese) surfaced Thursday that Xiaomi, China’s number one smartphone maker, is planning to use in-house chips f... |
| Aug 27, 2015 | Xiaomi’s reported move to in-house chips could spell trouble for Qualcomm | Fresh reports (link in Chinese) surfaced Thursday that Xiaomi, China’s number one smartphone maker, is planning to use in-house chips for its low- and mid-range smartphones in 2016.
The rumored move, which first appeared earlier this month ... |
| May 7, 2015 | ABI Research gives us our first look at the Apple Watch’s S1 board [Updated] | Our first look under the S1's cap.
ABI Research reader comments 123 with 63 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
Further ReadingiFixit: Replacing the Apple Watch’s battery is easy, replac... |
| May 3, 2015 | Apple Sued for Allegedly Infringing 7 Patents from STMicroelectronics
Categories
Search | STMicroelectronics is a French-Italian multinational electronics and semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It is commonly called ST, and it is Europe's largest semiconductor chip maker based on revenue. The compan... |
| Oct 30, 2014 | Intel’s 14nm Broadwell chip reverse engineered, reveals impressive FinFETs, 13-layer design | When Intel announced the details on its 14nm process last year, it raised eyebrows in some circles by claiming some extremely aggressive scaling figures. Put simply, Intel stated that it would deliver a better 14nm process with superior cha... |
| Sep 29, 2014 | Here's how Apple keeps your iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus battery life up for hours | Vamien McKalin, Tech Times 29 September 2014, 10:09 pm
Some might be wondering right now, how Apple managed to keep the battery life of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus at correct average for everyday use. Well, the company certainly didn't c... |
| Sep 24, 2014 | A8 SoC reverse engineered: Revised CPU, new quad-core GPU, TSMC’s 20nm process | Reverse engineering company Chipworks has published its new report on the Apple A8 SoC, the first 20nm high-end SoC from TSMC and the chip powering the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. The analysis shows a chip design that’s a bit different than... |
| Sep 23, 2014 | iPhone 6 and 6 Plus: In deep with Apple’s thinnest phones | Enlarge / The iPhone 6 (left) and iPhone 6 Plus (right) have kicked small phones to the curb.
Andrew Cunningham reader comments 346 with 159 posters participating, including story author
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
S... |
| Sep 23, 2014 | Chipworks digs up more information on Apple’s new A8 chip | The Apple A8 die shot as mapped out by Chipworks.
Chipworks reader comments 68 with 38 posters participating, including story author
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
Now that the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus... |
| Apr 11, 2014 | Samsung’s Galaxy S5 has plenty of upgrades—so why does it feel so meh? | Enlarge / Even fish are lining up to buy the GS5.
Ron Amadeo reader comments 327 with 176 posters participating, including story author
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
Samsung's newest flagship is finally... |
| Apr 2, 2014 | Samsung Galaxy S5 Teardown Reveals Camera, Heart Rate Monitor And Fingerprint Sensor Innards | The Samsung Galaxy S5 won’t be officially on sale in the U.S. until next week, but already people have gotten their hands on early hardware and torn it apart to see what makes it tick. Chipworks (via 9to5Google) has disassembled one of Sams... |
| Nov 27, 2013 | Xbox One APU reverse engineered, reveals SRAM as the reason for small GPU | For months, Sony and Microsoft fanboys have lined up to hurl insults at each other over which console would pack more hardware, hit higher performance targets, or prove a better design for the next generation. With the two consoles launched... |
| Nov 20, 2013 | Reverse engineered PS4 APU reveals the console’s real CPU and GPU specs | The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One may not offer an enormous jump over last-generation graphics out of the gate, but the SoCs inside the consoles — semi-custom APUs made by AMD — are a huge leap forward in terms of integration and capability. B... |
| Nov 19, 2013 | Report: $399 PlayStation 4 costs about $381 to build | Enlarge / Sony's PlayStation 4.
Andrew Cunningham reader comments 114 with 69 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
Sony's new PlayStation 4 is selling well at its introductory price point... |
| Oct 30, 2013 | iPad Air’s A7 chip is identical to the iPhone’s, just faster | The iPhone 5S (shown above, in system board phone) and the iPad Air share the exact same SoC. That doesn't mean there aren't differences.
iFixit reader comments 104 with 42 posters participating, including story author
Share this story
Shar... |
| Sep 20, 2013 | Chipworks: Apple’s A7 is made by Samsung, M7 is indeed a separate chip | Chipworks reader comments 52 with 33 posters participating, including story author
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
A few hours after iFixit's high-level teardown of the iPhone 5S and 5C, Chipworks has sta... |
| Sep 20, 2013 | Chipworks: Apple’s A7 Chip Made By Samsung, M7 Co-Processor By NXP | Here’s a bit of supply chain nerdery for you on the iPhone 5s front. Teardown experts Chipworks have uncapped Apple’s A7 processor and discovered that it is indeed still made by Samsung.
There had been significant rumors before the release ... |
| Mar 13, 2013 | Samsung, not TSMC, still makes the Apple TV’s new single-core A5 processor (Updated) | The new Apple TV's internals.
Chipworks reader comments 46 with 33 posters participating, including story author
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
Apple's new, revised version of the third-generation Apple ... |
| Mar 11, 2013 | Apple TV’s new, smaller A5 processor could be quietly momentous update | reader comments 59 with 38 posters participating, including story author
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
Update: There's a reason why you wait for an outfit like Chipworks to dissect a chip before making ... |
| Nov 2, 2012 | The fourth-generation iPad’s new GPU is a quad-core monster | reader comments 62 with 49 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
We already know that the biggest change in the not-so-different fourth-generation iPad is its brand-new A6X processor, but ... |
| Oct 17, 2012 | Source: Apple Accessory Partner Seminar Coming November 7-8, Will Cover Lightning Guidelines | We’re now hearing from a source close to Apple’s accessory manufacturing partner that the company plans to hold a conference in Shenzen, China for its Made for iPod/iPhone/iPad (MFI) program partners on November 7 and 8, similar to the one ... |
| Sep 25, 2012 | iPhone 5 A6 SoC reverse engineered, reveals rare hand-made custom CPU, and tri-core GPU | Apple still hasn’t said a word about the new A6 SoC within the iPhone 5, but no matter: Chipworks — a company that specializes in reverse engineering computer chips — has now completed its initial analysis of the A6, and the results are ver... |
| Sep 13, 2012 | What do we know about Apple’s new A6 processor? | reader comments 127 with 68 posters participating, including story author
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
Apple's A5 processor has had some long legs. Originally introduced in the iPad 2 in early 2011, th... |
| Jul 12, 2012 | Op-ed: the rumored 7.85″ iPad’s price, specs, and place in Apple’s lineup | A mockup of what a smaller iPad might look like
MacRumors/CiccareseDesign reader comments 133 with 79 posters participating, including story author
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
Rumors of a new, smaller... |
| Jun 22, 2012 | Sony sinks $997M into camera sensor production as revenue slides | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
With a $5.7 billion loss in 2011, Sony is coming off its worst year ever. Blame the Thailand floods or its collapsing TV business, but ... |
| May 4, 2012 | Apple tests Samsung 32nm process on A5-equipped iPad 2 and Apple TV | 45nm process A5 die (left) compared to 32nm process A5 die (right).
Photograph by Chipworks reader comments 54 with 34 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
As noted recently by Chipworks,... |
| Mar 20, 2012 | New iPad’s A5X Processor Holds Few Surprises Despite Enormous Size | Initial teardowns of the new iPad whetted many a chip nerd’s appetite when they revealed that the A5X chip inside was truly gigantic. At nearly 13x13mm, it is significantly larger than the A5, which was itself already kind of a hefty bugger... |
| Mar 28, 2011 | Nintendo 3DS Chip Gets Taken Apart, Memory Specs Found | After a thorough teardown of the 3DS and its components, Chipworks was able to figure out how much RAM the 3DS has. X-raying the chip in question, the Fujitsu MB82M8080-07L, led to a special model code being discovered inside the die. From ... |
| Mar 14, 2011 | Apple A5 Teardown: It's Bigger And Better | The silicon fiends out there will want to take a look at Chipworks’ teardown of the A5 processor inside the iPad 2. There’s not much there for laypeople, though at over 120mm2 it’s more than twice the size of the A4 (53mm2), which, as you m... |
| Jan 26, 2011 | Teardown Of Nikon D7000 Shows Off The Well-Packed Interior Of A Modern DSLR | I wouldn’t say this teardown of a D7000 is of particular interest over, say, a Canon or Pentax, but you don’t often get to see brand-new DSLRs cracked open like this. When you think about it, there really is quite a lot of computing power p... |
| May 18, 2010 | Teardown gets to the silicon heart of the Kin Two | Several rows of pressure contacts help exchange data between the main board and the external buttons, microphone, speaker, and antennas embedded in the outer case.
Chipworks reader comments 10 with 9 posters participating
Share this story
S... |
| Apr 19, 2010 | Chipworks confirms more iPad A4 details, mystery remains | reader comments 36 with 30 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
Even before the iPad launched, when I learned that Apple's A4 was a single-core Cortex A8, it seemed pretty clear that A4 w... |
| Apr 6, 2010 | Tearing down the Apple A4 processor | Kyle at iFixit and his buddies at Chipworks straight up tore into the A4 chip that appears in the Apple iPad. The chip is an ARM processor with a small RAM package made by Samsung. The processor itself is made entirely by Apple although it ... |
| Aug 17, 2007 | Friday afternoon Apple links: “Why, Woz, why?” | reader comments with 0 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
Jacqui has thoughtfully allowed me to titillate and scintillate you all once again this week, so here's the latest batch of Fri... |
| Samsung больше не будет поставлять Apple процессоры | Компания Apple отказалась от Samsung в качестве поставщика процессоров для iPhone — вместо них этим занимается тайваньская компания Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). Об этом свидетельствует обзор деталей iPhone 6 от команды... |