A peek under the Apple Watch S1 hood.

[RAMd®d]

I don't know if this has been posted before.







As part of its Teardowns Market Research effort, ABI illustrates each component packed into the tiny, weather resistant module including WiFi, Bluetooth, and NFC radios.

http://9to5mac.com/2015/04/30/apple-watch-s1-chip/

[timg]

Interesting, but there's no way that's a 4Gb SRAM. It's a DRAM.

Flash has come a long way - the 8Gb chip in there is smaller than the 4Gb DRAM. Wasn't that long ago the situation was reversed.

[silvarios]

timg wrote:
Interesting, but there's no way that's a 4Gb SRAM. It's a DRAM.

Flash has come a long way - the 8Gb chip in there is smaller than the 4Gb DRAM. Wasn't that long ago the situation was reversed.

4Gb is 500 MB compared to 8GB flash chip.

[RAMd®d]

It's SRAM, not DRAM.

[mrlynn]

Mini-miniturization. Now to get rid of the "phone" and put it all on the "watch."

Or just put it all on a chip and sew it under your skin. . .

/Mr Lynn

[sekker]

Pretty cool tech.

[Cary]

mrlynn wrote:

Or just put it all on a chip and sew it under your skin. . .

/Mr Lynn

As predicted by the movie "The President's Analyst" in 1967:

Sidney Schaefer (James Coburn) is a well respected psychiatrist, selected by the "Central Enforcement Agency" from his work keeping their agents working though some of the cases and activities their positions have required. The "Federal Bureau of Regulation" has NEVER had a cooperative relationship with the "CEA", and blandly opposes the selection. But "President Lux" is satisfied that Dr. Schaefer is the right man for the job. This only means that Schaefer has no one to talk out his own concerns, or vent about the mix of insanity and inanity that his various cases entail. He has nearly instant access to the Presidential Manse, and is taken care of very nicely, a beautiful "gilded cage". But is he being watched? What about his communications? After a number of suspicious incidents and various people trying to either kidnap him, or kill him, Sidney Schaefer is on the run, with the help (or is it hindrance?) of agents of the CEA against the FBR and RSS (Russian Secret Services) and maybe (definitely) other strange and elusive agencies. Throughout the antics, Sidney Schaefer works his therapeutic treatments on all the agents he encounters, opening up some of their darkest secrets. Hiding with musicians, and the "underground culture" keeps him in the clear for a little while as his friends and enemies go looking for him. But all it takes is ONE TELEPHONE CALL and he is a prisoner. Behind all the antics "THE TELEPHONE COMPANY" wants to create and effective "hive-mind" creating a telephone network connecting people's phone numbers through their own neurocortices, eliminating the expensive infrastructure. Those agents he has met and treated realize that he is their best hope for something resembling sanity while still maintaining their positions in their various agencies. They rescue him and disable the "TPC" networking center. The movie ends with Schaefer hosting a Christmas Party with all the agents of the various agencies he has helped, and the "TPC" as an animatronic agency continuing with their plans. This is a satire of spy-films, science fiction, and the screwball chase movies of the 1960s.

[mrlynn]

"The President's Analyst" sounds like fun. . . Just checked Netflix and put it in my Queue, but "Availability unknown." Oh well.

Thanks for the tip.

/Mr Lynn

[RAMd®d]

The President's Analyst was a really great movie, much more so than you'd think after reading that synopsis.

Part of the synopsis is a reveal in the latter part of the movie which was pretty funny and somewhat Google-esque, Microsoft-ish.

Great fun.

James Coburn was on Carson for the movie and mentioned that in filming one scene, he was struck in the face by a New York citizen because his character was being chased by NYPD. Then he showed a clip.

Coburn was a brilliant actor, back when being an actor was more about acting than being a star. I've always felt he was terribly underrated. And a very cool dude.

[Speedy]

More AT$Tish given the time when it was made, just before the anti-trust lawsuit filed on the very last day of the Johnson Administration (because the Justice Dept. knew Pres. Nixon would have stopped the suit.)