What’s inside the iPhone?
Eesite provides us with insights on the iPhone’s insides (pun intended 
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According to a report from FBR Research, the winners are Samsung Electronics (applications/video processor), Marvell (802.11), Infineon Technologies (baseband), Broadcom Corp. (touch screen controller), and Cambridge Silicon Radio (Bluetooth).
FBR believes that Apple has contracted with Taiwan suppliers for 6 million units this year, with an option for another three million units if demand is good.
A report from Macquarie Research noted several Taiwan companies will also benefit, including Foxconn International (assembly), Catcher and Foxconn Tech (stainless casing and mechanical parts) Cheng Uei and Entery (connectors/cable and Bluetooth module), Unimicron and Tripod (PCB), Largan Precision (camera lens) and Altus (camera module).
Why the Samsung processor? The answer is obvious: Intel processors, while economic enough to power the MacBooks, were never ment to be mobile processors: they consume waay too much power. Still, Samsung is a surprise, given that Motorola has been a past Apple ally and would have seamed like a first choice.
What does this tell us again? That the stripped-down OSX version that Steve Jobs boasted runs on Samsung. Since it’s obviously OSX based(runs Safari and Dashboard at the least), this tells us quite a lot about the multi-platform capabilities that OSX has in store. Hmm… another of many Apple mysteries…
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