IT Home October 6th news, according to Juheng.com, a disassembly report from Japan showed that the total price of parts of the Apple iPhone 14 series flagship model is about 20% higher than that of iPhone 13, setting a record high.
According to Fomalhaut estimates, the total price of parts of the iPhone 14 Pro Max is about US$501 (about RMB 3,552), which is more than US$60 (about RMB 425) higher than the previous generation iPhone 13 Pro Max. Since its launch in 2018, the cost price of the iPhone "Max" flagship model has fallen between about US$400 (about RMB 2836) and US$450 (about RMB 3191), which has directly increased by more than US$60 this time. Both the cost of parts and the total amount of parts have shown the largest increase since 2018. In terms of pricing
models, the smallest iPhone 14 Pro Max is priced in the US in the same market as the same model in 2018, and remains at US$1,099 (about RMB 7,792). The rise in the price of parts was not directly transferred, which became the main reason for squeezing profits .
report pointed out that the cost of the iPhone 14 Pro series has increased, mainly related to the A16 bionic chip . This chip costs US$110 (about RMB 780), and is more than 2.4 times the A15 chip equipped on the iPhone 13 Pro Max last year. A16 Bionic uses the most advanced 4-nanometer process. Currently, only TSMC and Samsung Electronics have such production technology.
IT Home learned that Fomalhaut said that this highlights the product strategy of Apple "cannot distinguish between new functions by using new functions, so it has to use the high-performance configuration to distinguish it."
In other parts, the CMOS used by iPhone 14 comes from Sony . Among the three rear cameras on the iPhone 14 Pro, the CMOS used by the main camera of is 30% larger than before, and the price is about 50% higher than that of US$15 (about 106 yuan). Thanks to the adoption of the new CMOS, the main pixels of the iPhone14 Pro series have been increased to 48 million. The OLED panel of the
disassembled model uses Samsung electronics; the baseband chip comes from Qualcomm ; the power management chip (PMIC) is Apple's own product. In 2018, Apple acquired the power management chip business of British chip maker Dialog for US$600 million (about RMB 4.254 billion).
In addition, the report said that among the total parts of the iPhone 14 Pro Max, by region, accounts for 32.4%, South Korea accounts for 24.8%, Japan accounts for 10.9%, Taiwan accounts for 7.2%, mainland China accounts for 3.8%, and others (unknown) accounts for 20.9%.
. Among the total iPhone 13 Pro Max parts last year, the United States accounted for 22.6%, South Korea accounted for 30.4%, Japan accounted for 14.5%, Taiwan accounted for 8.4%, mainland China accounted for 4.5%, and others (unknown) accounted for 19.6%.
