NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Web site iFixit took a look inside the newly-launched Apple (AAPL) iPhone 5s. It found all the usual suspects, but did find one surprise.
Apple (AAPL) has included a Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) chip for the TouchID. The sensor technology uses the technology from AuthenTec, which Apple purchased over a year ago.
The camera chip, which makes the iSight camera run, is most likely from Sony (SNE), as the DNL markings are consistent with previous Sony housing, according to the Web site and Jim Morrison, vice president of the Technology Analysis Group at Chipworks.
Further tearing down the iPhone 5s, iFixit found a Murata 339S0205 Wi-Fi module, based off Broadcom's (BRCM) BCM4334. Broadcom also has its BCM5976 touchscreen controller inside the phone. There's also the other usual players, including SK Hynix, providing the NAND Flash, Qualcomm (QCOM), which is providing the PM8018 RF power management IC, MDM9615M LTE Modem, and WTR1605L LTE/HSPA+/CDMA2K/TDSCDMA/EDGE/GPS transceiver. Longstanding Apple partner TriQuint Semiconductor (TQNT) has space in the iPhone 5s, supplying the TQM6M6224 chip. There also chipsets inside from Skyworks Solutions (SWKS) (77810, 77355), Avago Technologies (AVGO) (A790720, A7900) and Texas Instruments' (TXN) 37C64G1 chip. There's also several chipsets from Apple, including the much talked-about 64-bit A7 chip, based on ARM Holdings (ARM) ARMv8 instruction set. Apple 338S1216 and 338S120L are also included. Difficult to find, however, is the M7 co-processor that Apple talked up at the launch. iFixit believes the M7 could be built into the A7, and is not actually a separate chip. --Written by Chris Ciaccia in New York >Contact by Email. Follow @Chris_Ciaccia
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