Kindle Fire HD Teardown

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The display is manufactured by LG Electronics, and is labeled as LD070WX3-SL01.
Bad news everyone! The LCD and front glass panel are fused together. This means you have to replace the entire assembly as one unit rather than two separate entities.
It seems as if this particular display was designed on April 19, 2012.
Finally, we found the Atmel maXTouch™ mXT768E mutual capacitance touchscreen controller hiding underneath a piece of tape.

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