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25 Jul 07
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Marvell Technology Group (MRVL :marvell technology group ltd ordLast: 18.78-0.04-0.21%
5:28pm 07/25/2007
Delayed quote dataSponsored by:MRVL18.78, -0.04, -0.2% ) , with its Wi-Fi baseband chip; CSR PLC, which provides the iPhone's Bluetooth technology; and Wolfson Microelectronics, which makes the audio-processing chip.
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iSuppli, which found after taking apart an 8-gigabyte iPhone that producing the device costs Apple about $266 for the hardware.
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Based on the $599 price tag of the 8-gigabyte iPhone, the company stands to record gross margins of more than 55% for every unit sold,
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those profits would be even greater that the 40% to 50% margins Apple earns from the various versions of its iPod device. The company's new Apple TV set-top box has margins of about 21%, iSuppli added, after performing "teardown" analysis on those devices as well.
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Apple hopes to sell about 10 million iPhones within a year and claim 1% of the mobile-phone market. ISuppli estimates that Apple will sell 4.5 million iPhones this year and 13.5 million in 2008
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Samsung Electronics is "perhaps the biggest winner" among the iPhone parts suppliers, with its components making up $76.25, or about 30.5% of the parts in the 8GB iPhone. Samsung's contributions include the device's applications processor, NAND flash and DRAM memory chips.
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