iPad 2 has a cost component of 325 dollars, according to IHS iSuppli

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Last week we presented you the same survey conducted by the people of IHS iSuppli with Motorola Xoom, one of the main competitors of iPad 2, cost component was close to $360. Today we share with you the estimate on Apple's new product: $ 325.

The estimated price that give us is for the 32 GB with connectivity model 3 G, United States out of 729 dollars, more than double the cost estimated by components. Again I would like to comment that it is a study more interesting than real, that helps us compare with other teams. In it are they left out lots of expenses: advertising, labor, design, development, distribution, etc.

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Specified us a couple of different values in the source, depends on whether the team is the operator Verizon, $323.35, or good of AT & T, $326.60 (uses more expensive connectivity hardware). For this reason we have decided to round off with the figure.

Values that give us that think that Apple has much room for manoeuvre in the benefits, although the above-mentioned expenses are not included. But it is not very different from what we see in the competition, in one quick comparison have the equivalent Motorola Xoom which sells for about $800.

There are very different forms of distribution, between the two gadgets that Apple runs with the cost and infrastructure of their own shops, and that also influences the final price, for their benefit is that you have to pay less middlemen.

Entering components, says that the cost of the new A5 is 75% higher than the Apple A4, according IHS iSuppli has a cost of $ 14. This morning we presented you the higher price in which moves Nvidia Tegra 2 and the new Intel Atom.

There is no mention to other elements of the SoC as the new graphics processor from PowerVR, that you have more information and an interesting comparison in Applesfera. Always bearing in mind that (top in Xoom) screen resolutions quite influence the final results of the benchmarks.

Logically the most expensive component remains the touchscreen, the IPS panel developed by lg Display has a cost of $127. Despite being almost the same as the first iPad, in that it was a cost of $95 (April 2010), what other aspects (refinement, improvements in design, materials...) have raised the price of the same.

Camera modules, discussed by his photographic work, quality, since they are clearly focused on the use of Facetime leaving $ 4.80. The memory of the iPad 2 also comes from Samsung, with NAND (DRAM…) total cost of 65.70 dollars. I leave you with a table in which are collected all these components and which are missing:

Finally I leave links to other gadgets that have passed through the hands of iSuppli, as the tablet samsung galaxy tab, with 205 dollars of cost, a nokia n8, 188 dollars, the same as that estimated for an iPhone 4.

Vía | «evertiq» IHS iSuppli

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