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Teardown of New iPad Reveals Samsung Retina Display, Qualcomm MDM9600 Wireless Chip

KPOM said:
Yes, that was speculation. The RTR8600 is about a year old. No wonder they didn't put it into the iPhone 4S (it would have had a bad effect on battery life). I guess the 28nm chips weren't ready on time.
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I agree with you. I said it because people on here were talking about it like it was a done deal.

RTR8600 is what the Xyboard use from Motorola on Verizon.
 
Buildbright said:
I agree with you. I said it because people on here were talking about it like it was a done deal.

RTR8600 is what the Xyboard use from Motorola on Verizon.
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Of course, it's entirely possible they are using multiple chips, since they are all capable of handling AT&T and Verizon bands, and that iFixit just happened to get one with the RTR8600. People don't buy mobile tablets based on the baseband chip used.
 
I thought the consensus was the A5x was identical to the A5 except for GPU....they're saying the CPU has an extra 0.2ghz?
 
frick said:
Edit: the Toshiba chip on the A5X side of the mainboard is probably the NAND. Not sure what those chips are. Isn't the A5X RAM supposed to be on-die? Is this evidence that Apple moved the RAM off-die since they manufactured it at 45nm and ran out of room?
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It's confirmed. Like I thought.

Two Elpida LP DDR2. Each package is 512 MB for a total of 1 GB

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2 x 4Gb Elpida LP DDR2 = 1 GB DRAM in separate packages in a 64-bit configuration

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Samsung makes good components. Too bad Samsung had to go and copy some of Apples products.
I think they could of made more money just being the sole maker of Apple products but slowly I think Apple will move away from them as soon as other manufacturers get their **** together!!
 
Peace said:
Well since it has the Broadcom BCM4330 does this mean we could conceivably have FM Radio in the future ?

"The Broadcom BCM4330 single chip device provides the highest level of integration for a mobile or handheld wireless system, with integrated IEEE 802.11 a/b/g and single-stream 802.11 n (MAC/baseband/radio), Bluetooth 4.0+HS, and FM radio receiver and transmitter."
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You can get a tremendous amount of radio stations incl. worldwide via shoutcast.

The trick is to buy an app call RadioAlarm. (Not expensive) and switch on the radio section.

I know it's not direct FM, but it has soooo many choices.

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delToros said:
Great!

But will it BLEND!? :eek:
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Yes, once you get it into the cup!
 
Thunderhawks said:
You can get a tremendous amount of radio stations incl. worldwide via shoutcast.

The trick is to buy an app call RadioAlarm. (Not expensive) and switch on the radio section.

I know it's not direct FM, but it has soooo many choices.

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i'm familier with apps that stream radio stations :)

I want to be able to "tune" to a FM station.
 
Peace said:
It's confirmed. Like I thought.

Two Elpida LP DDR2. Each package is 512 MB for a total of 1 GB

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2 x 4Gb Elpida LP DDR2 = 1 GB DRAM in separate packages in a 64-bit configuration

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Elpida was probably chosen in an attempt to diversify from Samsung. Did not work so well - Elpida went banrupt a month ago.
 
Peace said:
Is this a new 32nm SOC ?
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Looks like iFixit took the heat spreader off:

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If you compare the A5X size to one of the other ICs on the board (choose one that has a similar height/width vs. the iPad 2), it looks like the A5X is a bit smaller than the A5. If the RAM is on-die, it would appear to be 32nm; if the RAM has been moved off-die it's hard to tell...
 
frick said:
Looks like iFixit took the heat spreader off:

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If you compare the A5X size to one of the other ICs on the board (choose one that has a similar height/width vs. the iPad 2), it looks like the A5X is a bit smaller than the A5. If the RAM is on-die, it would appear to be 32nm; if the RAM has been moved off-die it's hard to tell...
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The RAM is off-die but it's not Elpida memory.
 
So the new iPad display is made by Samsung - what does it mean?

Alright, iFixit made a teardown and concluded iPad's display is most probably made by Samsung.

My question is: what does it really mean?

Is it developed by Samsung? If yes, why isn't it used in any Samsung products? Is it developed by Apple and manufactured by Samsung? Is it developed by third company and manufactured by Samsung?

Who has the licence for this display? Is there even such thing as a licence for a display? Can any company ask Samsung to supply them with these displays?

Confusion. :confused:
 
Randomoneh said:
Alright, iFixit made a teardown and concluded iPad's display is most probably made by Samsung.

My question is: what does it really mean?

Is it developed by Samsung? If yes, why isn't it used in any Samsung products? Is it developed by Apple and manufactured by Samsung? Is it developed by third company and manufactured by Samsung?

Who has the licence for this display? Is there even such thing as a licence for a display? Can any company ask Samsung to supply them with these displays?

Confusion. :confused:
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If it was developed by Apple it would have been mentioned in the keynote.
 
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