iPhone SE Exploded View : iPhone SE as an amalgam of iPhone 5s, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s
As the smartphone industry
matures, one can easily observe that, many tradeoffs are realized in terms of
costs and performance, production and distribution, displays, storage and
camera.
With the iPhone SE Exploded View, HIS presents the iPhone SE as an amalgam of iPhone 5s,
iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s merged into
something altogether new.
According
to its Teardown the iPhone SE smartphone costs about $160 to
build. The U.S. version of an entry-level iPhone SE with 16 gigabytes (GB) of
NAND memory carries a bill of materials (BOM) of $156.20, which rises to
$160.00 when the manufacturing cost is added. The retail price of the iPhone SE
16GB model is $399.
IHS Teardown also revealed that, the only significant
tradeoffs a consumer would make with the iPhone SE against the iPhone 6s is
smaller size and lower screen resolution.
The size and resolution of the display are the same between the iPhone
SE and iPhone 5.
The iPhone SE’s cost and performance-optimized RF section supports up
to 18 global LTE bands. The iPhone SE also shares the iPhone 6 1.2 megapixel
secondary camera.
The iPhone SE uses the same A9 applications processor with dynamic
random-access memory (DRAM) to support interactive gaming and other
processor-intensive applications.
IHS estimates that Apple makes approximately $89 in
incremental profit for each iPhone SE 64GB sold when compared with the iPhone
SE 16GB.
The iPhone SE four-inch Corning Gorilla Glass display with integrated,
in-cell touch sensing brings up the BOM cost of $20; less than half the cost of
the same display in the iPhone 5s.
On average, 40 percent of iPhone displays are sourced from
Japan Display, 35 percent from LG Display and 25 percent from Sharp.
Apple is using the same Qualcomm chips as those included in the
iPhone 6, and most of the supporting front-end and power-amplifier modules
(PAMs) in the iPhone SE have been modified and presumably optimized to improve
cost and performance.
