“Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus uses chips from Qualcomm, Skyworks Solutions, Avago Technologies and other companies, according to gadget repair firm iFixit, which pried one of the devices open in Melbourne early on Friday,” Noel Randewich reports for Reuters.
“Like previous iPhones, the iPhone 6 Plus uses a Qualcomm 4G LTE modem, according to iFixit,” Randewich reports. “Dissembling the device in a Mac repair shop after lining up overnight to buy a phone, iFixit technicians also discovered a Murata wifi module, a Broadcom touchscreen controller, and chips from Skyworks, Avago and TriQuint.”
“The NFC chip in the iPhone 6 Plus comes from NXP Semiconductors,” Randewich reports. “NXP also supplies a motion co-processor, key to making the iPhone’s sensors work without draining its battery, iFixit said. As in other iPhones, Apple has designed its own main processor with technology licensed from ARM Holdings and in this device it is the A8 chip.”
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