New Apple TV Teardown Provides Closer Look at A8 Chip, Larger Heat Sink and Siri Remo - اخبار التقنية

ahlam1399 · #1 09-22-2015, 10:39 PM

New Apple TV Teardown Provides Closer Look at A8 Chip, Larger Heat Sink and Siri Remo

iFixit has posted a hardware teardown of the new fourth-generation Apple TV, providing a Closer Look at the set-top box's A8 Chip, flash storage, redesigned power supply with a Larger Heat Sink and other logic board components. The website also provided a Teardown of the accompanying Siri Remote.

Apple Teardown Provides Closer Look

Under the hood, the new Apple TV features a dual-core, 64-bit Apple A8 chip with 2GB of SK Hynix LPDDR3 SDRAM, custom Apple memory controller, SK Hynix NAND flash storage, Universal Scientific Industrial Wi-Fi module and SMSC USB 2.0 to 10/100 Ethernet controller.

Apple TV 4 Components List
Apple A8 APL1011 SoC
SK Hynix H9CKNNNBKTBRWR-NTH 2 GB LPDDR3 SDRAM
Universal Scientific Industrial 339S00045 Wi-Fi module
SMSC LAN9730 USB 2.0 to 10/100 Ethernet controller
Apple 338S00057 custom memory controller
Texas Instruments PA61
Fairchild Semiconductor DF25AU 010D 030D
DP2700A1
SK Hynix H2JTEG8VD1BMR 32 GB NAND Flash
NXP 1112 0206 5271B4K
V301 F 57K C6XF G4

The new Apple TV also has a Larger Heat sink, which is likely a contributing factor to the set-top box's taller form factor. The redesigned power supply is rated at 12V at 0.917A, compared to the third-generation Apple TV's rating of 3.4V at 1.75A. The Heat Sink is situated above the heat-sensitive logic board.

Apple Teardown Provides Closer Look

The Teardown of the Siri Remote reveals a ST Microelectronics low-power ARM Cortex-M3 MCU, Qualcomm CSR1010 Bluetooth radio, Texas Instruments low-power digital signal processor, the same Broadcom touch screen controller used in the iPhone 5s/5c and iPad Air, 410 mAh battery and a few other chips.

iFixit gave the new Apple TV a strong repairability score of 8 out of 10, with ten being the easiest to repair, because it has only a few major components, a replaceable power supply and standard Torx screws. It also found the Siri Remote has a wide gap, making it easy to pry apart for repairs.