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iPhone 5s Component Costs Estimated to Begin at $199
IHS Suppli has released its estimate of the component costs involved in building the iPhone 5s, performing a virtual teardown based on information revealed by Apple and industry knowledge. The estimate, which does not include numerous other costs involved in product development, manufacturing, and sales, such as research and development, software, patent licenses, marketing, and distribution expenditures, pegs the component cost of the 16 GB iPhone 5s at $199.
The full report has not yet been released but AllThingsD received early access.
However, from a material perspective, the iPhone 5c and 5s are very similar. With the exception of the fingerprint sensor, A7 processor and "some newer memory chips that consume less power", IHS analyst Andrew Rassweiler says they are "basically the same".
However, Apple appears to have spent "a lot of time and money combining [radio frequency] chips", says Rassweiler. "Apple seems to be pushing its RF suppliers to do things they don't do for anyone else."
The full IHS Suppli report should be released tomorrow.
The full report has not yet been released but AllThingsD received early access.
Apple spends at least $191 on components to build a 16 gigabyte iPhone 5s. The cost rises to $210 for a 64GB unit. The cost of assembly adds another $8 per unit, bringing the range to between $199 and $218.The bill of materials includes $41 for the iPhone 5s display, $32 for the RF chips, $7 for the fingerprint sensor, and $19 for the A7 chip manufactured by Samsung. The report says the cheaper iPhone 5c costs between $173 and $183, with the A6 processor costing $13.
That cost estimate is pretty close to that of the original iPhone 5, which IHS pegged at about $205 last year. Without a contract, the iPhone sells at prices ranging from $649 to $849, depending on storage capacity.
However, from a material perspective, the iPhone 5c and 5s are very similar. With the exception of the fingerprint sensor, A7 processor and "some newer memory chips that consume less power", IHS analyst Andrew Rassweiler says they are "basically the same".
However, Apple appears to have spent "a lot of time and money combining [radio frequency] chips", says Rassweiler. "Apple seems to be pushing its RF suppliers to do things they don't do for anyone else."
Those vendors, according to IHS’s analysis, are Qualcomm, Skyworks, Avago, RF Micro Devices and TriQuint Semiconductor, all of which make chips that handle different aspects of the iPhone’s connections to various wireless networks. These efforts toward getting the radio frequency chips to work together have the effect, Rassweiler said, of allowing the phones to support more frequency bands in a single phone than before. “The iPhone 5 supported no more than five LTE bands. The 5s and 5c can support as many as 13, and that’s unique,” he said. “Unlike other phone designers, Apple has spent a lot of time collaborating with the RF chip companies to find novel solutions that its competitors don’t have.”Some older generations of iPhones required a number of different models to cover all the different cellular frequencies, but Rassweiler says the progress Apple has made on RF chips suggests the company may soon be able to produce a single iPhone model that works on all cellular frequencies, increasing economies of scale significantly.
The full IHS Suppli report should be released tomorrow.
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79 months ago
These articles never take into thought of R & D costs, shipping costs, and labor costs. So now we will have 30 pages of apple is ripping people off posts
79 months ago
What I don't understand is the $19 cost difference between the 16GB and 64GB, and the $200 price difference. Same R&D, shipping, labor, marketing, etc. costs there.
79 months ago
It's always worth mentioning. Apple does not profit $451 per device.
The component cost is only a fraction considering R&D Engineer/HR/Legal/etc hourly wages during development time at CA wages and development tools and resources, and on and on and on.
Sure, but Apple do rip us off respect storage:
"$191 on components to build a 16 gigabyte iPhone 5s. The cost rises to $210 for a 64GB unit"
They charge $200 for something that costs them $19, that's quite a profit they make there
79 months ago
THEN WHY DOESN'T APPLE SELL THEM FOR $250?! THAT'S PLENTY OF PROFIT THEY ARE RIPPING US ALL OFF
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79 months ago
So, the 16 GB iPhone 5s costs $191 in parts and the 64 GB 5s costs $210 in parts? You can't tell me that there's a lot of extra time required to assemble a 64 GB version vs. a 16 GB version. So, Apple is paying an $19 premium for the 64 GB flash memory and charging the end-user $200 more. That is highway robbery plain and simple.
That said, people are continuing to pony up for the prices Apple's charging so there's really no reason for Apple to lower the prices.
That said, people are continuing to pony up for the prices Apple's charging so there's really no reason for Apple to lower the prices.
79 months ago
It's always worth mentioning. Apple does not profit $451 per device.
The component cost is only a fraction considering R&D Engineer/HR/Legal/etc hourly wages during development time at CA wages and development tools and resources, and on and on and on.
The component cost is only a fraction considering R&D Engineer/HR/Legal/etc hourly wages during development time at CA wages and development tools and resources, and on and on and on.
79 months ago
Sure, but Apple do rip us off respect storage:
"$191 on components to build a 16 gigabyte iPhone 5s. The cost rises to $210 for a 64GB unit"
They charge $200 for something that costs them $19, that's quite a profit they make there
No one ripped you off. Don't like it, don't buy. Pretty simple.
79 months ago
These articles never take into thought of R & D costs, shipping costs, and labor costs. So now we will have 30 pages of apple is ripping people off posts
Well, at least MacRumors made that clear.
The estimate, which does not include numerous other costs involved in product development, manufacturing, and sales, such as research and development, software, patent licenses, marketing, and distribution expenditures, pegs the component cost of the 16 GB iPhone 5s at $199.
79 months ago
the progress Apple has made on RF chips suggests the company may soon be able to produce a single iPhone model that works on all cellular frequencies, increasing economies of scale significantly.
This is the type of innovation that doesn't get mentioned in the press because it isn't sexy enough.
It's entirely possible that there will only be one model of iPhone 6 that will work all around the world on every supported carrier (in your choice of color, of course). Is anybody else pursuing this as well?
Hell, Samsung even sells the GS4 with different CPUs for different markets around the world. Talk about fragmentation...
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