Per the report, the estimated bill of materials (BoM) cost for the iPhone 12, which starts at $829, is $373. The BoM for the iPhone 12 Pro is $406. The baseline variant retails for $999.
Qualcomm’s 5G modem, Samsung’s OLED, and Sony’s sensors are one of the biggest contributors to iPhone 12 BoM
The A14 Bionic contributes approximately $40 to the iPhone 12 BoM, and RAM and flash memory cost $12.8 per unit and $19.2 per unit, respectively.
The new phones feature Sony’s CMOS image sensors and they are seemingly priced at around $5.40 to $7.40 per unit.
The battery capacity has been reduced by 10 percent and the motor has also been shrunk to create room for additional parts.
South Korean parts account for a 26.8 percent share of iPhone 12’s value
Components made in South Korea account for 26.8 percent of all parts in the iPhone 12 by value, and 21.9 percent and 13.6 percent of the parts come from the US and Japan, respectively.
China remains the key assembling site, but the country only accounts for nearly 5 percent of the parts by value.
Although iPhone 12’s retail price is more than twice its BoM, the figure doesn’t represent pure profit.
The bill of materials shows how much it costs a manufacturer to source components needed to make a product and it doesn’t reflect other expenses such as salaries, marketing, research and development, and software.
