Stefan Mileschin

L shaped battery phone starting at 1.149 € / $999+ tax / £999

iPhone XS and XS Max have started reaching their early adaptors, and at the same time iFixit managed to dismantle it and tell us which chips are inside of the precious overpriced phone.

The brain for both phones is the Hexa-core A12 Bionic SoC with a "next-generation" Neural Engine probably one of the largest mobile chips ever made. With 6.9 billion transistors without modem, it definitely takes a large space compared to the soon to start shipping Kirin 980 with 7nm and same transistor count but with the modem counted in the transistor number. The Apple APL1W81 A12 Bionic SoC layered over Micron MT53D512M64D4SB-046 4 GB LPDDR4X SDRAM chip to save some space, but nevertheless, it is big.

The smaller phone has 5.8" (2436 × 1125) while the larger has 6.5" (2688 × 1242) 458 ppi Super Retina OLED displays with True Tone, wide color gamut, and 3D Touch. Both share 12 MP rear cameras (wide-angle and telephoto) with ƒ/1.8 and ƒ/2.4 apertures and OIS, and 7 MP selfie cam paired with TrueDepth FaceID hardware.

The 64 GB version has the Toshiba TSB3243V85691CHNA1 64 GB flash storage and we will skip the list of audio codec, USB power delivery, display port, battery DC converter, power management, audio amplifiers and battery charger chips as iFixitiFixit has them all listed just fine. The WiFi/Bluetooth combo comes from Apple/USI while both XS and XS Max has one modem choice, the Intel PMB9955 (likely XMM7560) baseband processor/modems.

https://fudzilla.com/news/mobile/472...l-modem-inside