iPhone 4S Teardown

[acak]

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone-4S-Teardown/6610/1

[veyron]

For those who don't watch the markets, check out triquant (NASDAQ:TQNT) http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=TQNT

The rally seems to stem from the fact that iPhone 4S uses some triquant chips

[wmf → veyron]

Haven't all iPhones used TriQuant amplifiers?

[ashishbharthi]

I hope they teardown camera assembly also and give some details on new Apple designed optics.

[khafra → ashishbharthi]

I'm hoping for a review from a real photographer's site.

[sjs → khafra]

Sorry, I missed the up arrow and voted you down by mistake. I'd love to see such a review as well.

[cicloid]

So, How much memory is inside?

I didn't see anything on the memory specs on the teardown :S

[acak → cicloid]

512MB - to retain battery life despite the new processor / chipset.

The standby time seems to have gone down over its predecessor nevertheless.

http://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-4s-ram-2011-10

[Edit]

In the iFixit teardown article, step 8.

How 'bout a close-up of that Apple A5 chip. 1 GHz Dual-core processor with 512 MB of DDR2 RAM... Yowza.

How do we know it's 512 MB? Check out the marking, specifically E4E4, denoting two 2 Gb LPDDR2 die—for a total of 4 Gb—or 512 MB.

[ceejayoz → cicloid]

I believe Gruber said it still has 512MB.

[amethyst → ceejayoz]

Gruber is basing that on something mentioned by id when they were talking about the 4S, and mentioned the 512MB mark.

[gks → amethyst]

It was actually Epic that said 512mb. The guys that created Infinity Blade. Not a big deal but figured it's something worth pointing out for people looking for more information.

[amethyst → gks]

Oops, you're right. That's what I meant :P

[glhaynes → amethyst]

Geekbench has been run on it as well, and its results were indicative of 512 MB.

Edit: actually I may be incorrect about the Geekbench part; nevertheless, 512 MB is reported from a teardown: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4964/ifixit-iphone-4s-teardown...