Apple iPhone SE Teardown Posted: June 6, 2016 Contributing Authors: Jim Morrison, Ray Fontaine, Dick James, Daniel Yang, and Mandi Gingerich The long-rumored, cost-friendly iPhone SE was finally announced on March 21st of this year. Said to be the iPhone 6s squeezed into the smaller iPhone 5s body

Posted: April 24, 2016 Contributing Authors: Jim Morrison, Ray Fontaine, Dick James and Daniel Yang The following teardown blog contains some of our initial findings. For more in depth information on these topics and more, download the full Galaxy S7 edge teardown report. Register for a

Posted: March 20, 2016 Contributing Authors: Mandi Gingerich, Julia Elvidge and Jim Morrison Fitbit Alta The new, more-stylish Alta fitness tracker If you look through our recent blog history, you will quickly see evidence of TechInsights’ interest in the latest in wearable technology. So, naturally

Posted: February 29, 2016 Microsoft Band II Teardown We tore down the Microsoft Band II back in November, but we think it deserves a second look. It has a lot of great silicon inside. The Band II website gave us a beautifully animated exploded view of the fitness band. Our exploded view isn’t quite

Apple Pencil Teardown Posted: December 23, 2015 A lot of semiconductor content in something so small! Last month we purchased an iPad Pro and an Apple pencil to understand what devices were being used by Apple in this new tablet and stylus solution. This story is not about the iPad Pro, but about

Apple iPhone 6s Teardown Posted: September 25, 2015 Contributing Authors: Dick James, Daniel Yang, Stacy Wegner, Chad Davis & Albert Cowsky It’s now a yearly ritual - go line up and get the new iPhone! This year Apple did multi-country launches, and allowed pre-orders to be picked up from the store

Posted: August 21, 2015 Well, that happened. We found ourself doing not ONE, but two, quick turn teardowns on the same day - the OnePlus 2 and the Samsung Galaxy Note 5. We couldn’t have done it without the full support of our teams, both here in the US and across the Atlantic in Europe, so a big

Posted: August 21, 2015 A Galaxy More Like the S6 than the Note 4 In this galaxy not that long ago, Samsung released what could arguably be the first device to put ‘phablet’ in all of our vocabularies, the Galaxy Note. Fast forward to their recent announcement, Samsung boasted how they knew (“way”)

Apple Watch Teardown Posted: April 24, 2015 Contributing Authors: Jim Morrison. Daniel Yang and Chad Davis Apple Delivers a Wearable in Total Apple Fashion A few days ago, Apple sent us our tracking number indicating that our shipment would arrive today, Friday, April 24th. We were pleasantly

Posted: April 2, 2015 Contributing Authors: Dick James and Daniel Yang Samsung Galaxy S6 Teardown The much anticipated Samsung Galaxy S6 has made an early appearance in our teardown labs this morning – thanks to the diligent skills of our trusted logistics guru. We got our hands on the 4G+ version

Apple iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Teardown Posted: September 9, 2014 Contributing Authors: C. Young, D. Yang, R. Fontaine, J. Morrison, D. James, Chad Davis and Albert Cowsky Inside the Apple iPhone 6 The iPhone 6 may be the most anticipated Apple handset since the original iPhone, and with good

Amazon Fire Phone Teardown Posted: July 25, 2014 Amazon Fire Phone Teardown Preliminary Teardown analysis suggests that Amazon’s $649.00 USD (Amazon.com) phone costs $209.00 USD to build. Qualcomm is the primary providers of many of the key integrated circuits and both Invensense and OmniVision are