Apple is currently the leader of the global smartwatch market. Its Watch series has been a success across the globe, thanks to the company’s aggressive marketing. Now, a new report has revealed that the brand’s latest Apple Watch Series 6 just costs 136 US Dollars to make.
According to a Counterpoint Research report, the BoM analysis (bill of materials) for the Watch Series 6 has revealed that the device costs about 136 US Dollars to build. The cost for the application processor, display, sensors, and casing together alone accounts for roughly 68 percent of the wearable’s total value. The Watch Series 6 features an Always On Retina LTPO OLED display that offers 1000 nits of peak brightness. But since the company excluded the Force Touch feature in the model, the overall BoM was reduced.
This even made the smartwatch from the Cupertino based giant slimmer by 0.3mm as well compared to its predecessor. This has the display along with the touch module strengthened by ION-X glass account for about 13.2 percent of the device’s total value. Arriving at the SIP (System In Package), the latest Apple Watch ships with dual cores that are based on the A13 chipsets’ “little” power efficient cores, which the iPhone maker claims is 20 percent faster than the previous generation’s SIP.
The smartwatch’s SIP module, along with the 1GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 32GB internal storage makes up roughly 23.7 percent of the overall cost of the device. For those unaware, the Watch Series 6 starts from 399 US Dollars in the US. Apple products are known to have a sizeable profit margin, so it arrives as no surprise that the actual cost is less than half its retail price tag.
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