The $1,199 iPhone 15 Pro Max costs $502 to make, report says\u060c<\/p>\n
Have you ever wondered how much it costs to make your phone? Here are some ideas.<\/p>\n
The $1,199 iPhone 15 Pro Max (the base variant \u2013 8\/256GB) costs Apple $502 to make, according to a report from Search for counterpoint<\/a> complaints.<\/p>\n The BoM (which stands for \u201cblended bill of materials\u201d) report reveals what has changed in terms of production prices and if you feel like it, you could shed a tear for Apple, because everyone iPhone 15 Pro Max<\/span> it costs them 8% more than what they paid to make the iPhone 14 Pro Max (via 9to5Mac<\/a>).<\/p>\n That’s $37.70 more, but where exactly does the difference come from? And is this unusual? Well, maybe, since the difference between iPhone 14 Pro Max<\/span> and the iPhone 13 Pro Max was only a 3% increase.<\/p>\n In short, there are three key areas that make everyone iPhone 15 Pro Max<\/span> more expensive to produce: the 3 nanometer A17 Pro chip, the new 5x telephoto lens system which is based on a tetraprism and the titanium frame.<\/p>\n \u201cApple’s next-generation mobile platform, the A17 Pro, uses TSMC’s most advanced 3nm manufacturing technology and contains more than 19 billion transistors in one chip, 18% more than that of the A16 Bionic. Thanks to the improved 6-core GPU architecture, the GPU performance of iPhone 15 Pro Max is 20% faster,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n Costs have fallen for Apple for two important components: memory and display. In fact, Apple has updated the iPhone 15 Pro<\/span> Max’s RAM at 8 GB, 2 GB more than that of its predecessor. However, the global memory market saw a downward trend between the fourth quarter of 2022 and the third quarter of 2023, leading to a price drop of more than 30%. Display prices are also in a downward trend. Besides Samsung<\/a> Display, LG Display has also started providing LTPO displays for iPhone. <\/p>\n It is important to note that this year, Apple is offering more self-designed components in the iPhone 15 lineup. The report states that Apple-designed components account for 25% of the total BOM cost of the product. iPhone 15 Pro Max<\/span>compared to 22% in the iPhone 14 Pro Max<\/span> Last year.<\/p>\n Despite the increase in production costs and the fact that it is the most expensive iPhone to manufacture, the iPhone 15 Pro Max<\/span> is still the model with the highest profit margin in this year’s lineup. So, save the tears of compassion for another day\u2026\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The $1,199 iPhone 15 Pro Max costs $502 to make, report says\u060c Have you ever wondered how much it costs to make your phone? Here are some ideas. The $1,199 iPhone 15 Pro Max (the base variant \u2013 8\/256GB) costs Apple $502 to make, according to a report from Search for counterpoint complaints. The BoM […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[995,56,238,73,846],"class_list":["post-8406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-costs","tag-iphone","tag-max","tag-pro","tag-report"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8408,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8406\/revisions\/8408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Where does the price increase come from?<\/h2>\n