Teardown Shows Nokia’s Lumia 900 Costs $209 to Build

Nokia’s choice in components shows a deliberate strategy to compete on price against Apple and Google in the smartphone wars.
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Apple’s New iPad Costs at Least $316 to Build, IHS iSuppli Teardown Shows

Another iPad release day spurs another round of teardowns, and at least one cost estimate.
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The World Is Overflowing With Memory Chips

The economy, the euro and Thailand have combined into a perfect storm that has caused memory chip inventories to pile up to extreme levels.
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Seven Questions for Seagate CEO Steve Luczo About the Effects of the Thailand Floods

Flooding in Thailand has killed more than 600 people, devastated the Thai economy and caused one of the most significant supply chain disruptions to the computer industry in a generation.
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How Thrilled Is Texas Instruments to Have Its Chips in the Kindle Fire?

Very thrilled. Chipmaker TI does something that chip companies practically never do: It says how happy it is to have Amazon as a customer.
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Kindle Fire Costs About $203 to Build, Teardown Finds

A teardown analysis by IHS iSuppli finds that the Kindle Fire costs about as much to make as it sells for — maybe a little more.
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Would the Real Maker of the iPhone’s Camera Please Stand Up?

More information about the maker of the mysterious cameras inside Apple’s iPhone 4S emerged today, and one company’s shares shot up as a result.
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Apple’s iPhone 4S Cracked Open, Money Spills Out

Research house IHS iSuppli has opened up Apple’s iPhone 4S to see who’s in and out among its suppliers and to estimate how much it cost to make.
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How Much Did HP Lose on the TouchPad? Here’s a Good Guess.

Depending on how many TouchPads HP ordered, it may have lost between $140 million and $300 million on hardware alone.
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HP’s TouchPad Teardown: Its Deepest Secrets Revealed

The release of Hewlett-Packard’s TouchPad tablet — its answer to Apple’s iPad — may not have brought out many consumers lining up to buy it. But it did bring out the gearheads wanting to take it apart, see what’s going on inside and make an educated guess on what it cost to build.
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Apple: MEM's the Word

2010 Was a Boom Year in Chip Sales

ISuppli on Chip Market: Curb Your Enthusiasm