EETimes.com - The $199 iPhone: still a money maker - The Diigo Meta page

• 10 Jun 08
  

  At the Money

  iPhone Apple

  • The raw cost of materials to build the iPhone 3G could be nearly half that of the original model, according to Portelligent Inc. (Austin) that conducted a teardown analysis of the first handset. The first phone had a bill of materials estimated at $170 at launch, but the iPhone 3G could have a BOM as low as $100
  • Infineon baseband and RF transceiver and a Samsung applications processor
  • a global positioning system chip from Infineon based on technology it licensed from startup Global Locate which was recently acquired by Broadcom Corp.
  • touch screen assembly might be about half the $60 or so we estimated for Gen1 a year ago
  • 8 Gbytes of MLC NAND is today around $20
  • additional memory chips probably cost Apple only about $20

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