iFixit Teardown Guts The New iPad On Launch Day
Gadget of the moment the new iPad, has been taken to pieces for our viewing pleasure by iFixit on its day of release (with the help of some Red Bull, naturally). They chose Australia, because that’s the timezone which hit the 16th first. So, what did they find? Firstly, everything is glued down. Hard. That includes the 3.7V 42.5 watt-hours battery, so no enthusiast tinkering possible here. The display appears to be made by Samsung according to the model number; Apple’s proprietary A5X ARM-based CPU; Broadcom BCM4330 802.11a/b/g/n MAC/baseband/radio with integrated Bluetooth 4.0+HS and FM transceiver; Texas Instruments CD3240 driver device; 2 x 4Gb Elpida LP DDR2 = 1 GB DRAM in separate packages in a 64-bit configuration; Fairchild FDMC 6683; Broadcom BCM5973 I/O controller; Broadcom BCM5974 microprocessor and an Apple 338S0987 (Cirrus Logic audio codec). There’s lots of other chips there, too. Click on the link below for lots of pictures of increasingly disassembled new iPad along with humorous descriptions. Squeamish Apple fans may want to look away now.
Apple claims the new iPad is environmentally friendly with a “Recyclable aluminum and glass enclosure.” The materials may be recyclable, but the assembled unit is not. We spoke yesterday with Steve Skurnac, president of SIMS Recycling Solutionsone of the largest electronics recyclers in the world. He told us, “Sealed units make it difficult to remove the batteries. From a recycler’s point of view, the hazardous components [like batteries] need to be easily separated or removed.”
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