Teardown

Have you ever wanted to see what the inside of a Nikon D600 DSLR camera looked like? The team over at ifixit.com has posted a teardown of the D600 with comments regarding the camera's components and repairability.

The folks that see how inexpensive an item is to produce and feel that the manufacturer should have little to no profit over this cost are certainly not going to enjoy what they’re hearing from IHS iSuppli about Microsoft today, that’s for sure. With a a Bill of Materials (BOM) cost of $271 USD and...

Research firm IHS reports that the iPad mini costs at least $188 to build, after its teardown of a Wi-Fi-only 16GB mini. Adding additional memory increases the cost only slightly while adding a fair amount of profit — an additional $90 in profit for the 32GB model, and $162 for the 64GB model. It’s...

We already know what kind of hardware makes the Windows RT Microsoft Surface tablet tick as the device has already been given the teardown treatment. This time, however, we are being given an estimate as to how much are all of these components actually cost. According to IHS, the most affordable...

Whenever a new high-profile device is released, we can count on a number of teardowns from a variety of different sources to show us its innards. One of these sources is IHS iSuppli, which has delivered its teardown report for the new iPad mini . In its teardown, IHS iSuppli found that the cheapest...

IHS iSupply have done their usual iPad mini teardown and bill of materials estimate, and they peg the cost to build it at $188, including assembly labor. For a tablet that starts at $329, this represents a 43% gross margin, with net probably hovering in the low thirties...

In the fiercely competitive 7-inch tablet category, it's not unusual for companies to sell their slates at cost or even at a slight loss. The idea is to get the hardware into consumers' hands, and then flip a profit on content consumption sales, like ebooks, music downloads, apps, and so forth. A...

IHS analysis of Apple's new tablet offers an estimation on build costs and also reveals the identities of some component suppliers. [Read more]

In a teardown of Apple's new iPad mini over the weekend, IHS iSuppli analysts found the base 16GB Wi-Fi only model to cost about $188 to build, meaning the device could yield a gross profit margin of 43 percent, depending on variable factors like shipping costs.

Apple’s latest addition to the iPad family of tablets, the iPad mini, hit store shelves yesterday . Among the many standing in lines around the world to buy the devices were people who took them home to drop them and dunk them in water . Or to make TV comedy routines out of them. And then there was...