Ripping it apart: Who supplied what on the iPhone?
Most people who were lucky enough to get an iPhone over the weekend were more concerned with charging and activating it than wondering who made which components - but you know there are always people who need to know.
One such group is Portelligent 'teardown' company, who prised open their shiny new iPhone to see who had made what. Apple keep this kind of information fairly secret across its products, so other companies do the detective work instead.
Business Week has a fairly extensive report on it, but the main beneficiaries of the iPhone appear to be the German company Balda, who made the revolutionary touchscreen ("This screen is like nothing I've ever seen before," commented Portelligent's CEO David Carey), Samsung, who provided the main microprocessor chip and NAND memory, and at least one chip from NXP Semiconductor.
Portelligent believe it would have cost Apple around $200-$220 for the 4GB and 8GB iPhones, leaving a healthy profit margin.
Not that this should really bother anyone but geeks, unless something goes drastically wrong and then we'll know who to blame.
(Via Business Week)
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