With 3D Touch, the screen becomes pressure sensitive. The team at has identified the 3D Touch capacitive touch sensor (first image) and controller (second image) behind Apple's 3D Touch display.ģD Touch appears to be what Apple’s marketing department is most excited about. The iPhone 6s uses a new Qualcomm part, the MDM9635M whereas the iPhone 6 had the MDM9625M. Another consideration was the Baseband processor costs.The Apps + Baseband: The introduction of the A9 processor with the M9 designed into it increased the cost from the iPhone 6 which had an A8 and a separate M8 processor.The increase in camera costs: the iPhone 6s now has a 5 MP front camera and a 12 MP main camera – both are upgrades from the iPhone 6.We did find there to be suspicious ICs which could be a part of the radio - this will be confirmed in our final report. As for the lower cost of for the Radio – this was QTT estimate based solely on what we could verify.The display increase was due to the 3D Touch Sensor and its touch controller IC.We will take a closer look at during our deep dive to see if there are other fabrication techniques in the iPhone 6s versus the iPhone 6. The redesign of the aluminum enclosure using 7000 series impacted the Mechanical/Housing cost by an estimated $4.The move to a 2GB LPDDR4 memory IC caused the greatest impact for the memory cost our 2GB LPDDR4 accounts for $16, versus the $4.50 1GB LPDDR3 in the iPhone 6. There were some significant increases in costs for the iPhone 6s. In general for our QTTs, our estimates are rounded to the nearest $0.50. The iPhone 6 bill of material costs are from our released Deep Dive report, rounded to the nearest $0.50 to help with comparing to our quick turn estimates for the iPhone 6s QTT. The following chart compares the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6s QTT estimated bill of materials costs. Quick Comparison of iPhone 6 versus iPhone 6s
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