Watch the Apple Watch's new S1 chip get taken apart
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Watch the Apple Watch's new S1 chip get taken apart
The Apple Watch went on sale about 10 days ago and sales have been brisk and promising. At the heart of it is Apple's newest S1 SoC and a recent teardown of the Apple Watch revealed that it is encased in metal and held together by resin, which makes dissembling a tricky task.
However, that did not stop people from trying and ABI Research appears to have been the first to successfully take the S1 apart. To begin, the CPU, labeled APL 0778, appears to be a custom design.
The S1 was also found to have 512MB of RAM sourced from Elpida and 8GB of storage provided by SanDisk/Toshiba - enough for a couple of playlists of songs. Most of the connectivity tasks are handled by the Broadcom 43342 chip, which is capable of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC and even FM radio. Apple Pay is enabled through a controller made by NXP.
Accelerometer and gyroscope capabilities are enabled by a chip sourced from STM, whereas an ADI controller manages touch gestures.
ABI Research also remarked that the design of the S1 is an obvious derivative of Apple's SoCs used in their iPhones and iPads.
Source: AppleInsider
