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Apple Watch X-ray Teardown

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  • Fortunately, X-ray vision does reveal the secrets of board-level components:

  • Inductors reveal their wire coils.

  • Capacitors remain dark and elusive with all their wrapped dielectric layers.

  • Resistors are almost invisible, except for the solder that melts and creates a fillet on the edges of the resistor.

  • Invisible crystals are hidden beneath protective walls, but close to the processor to minimize latency and signal interference.

  • While the dots and swirls in the second image may look like single-celled organisms, they are not.

  • The swirls are the wire coils of the inductive charger. The large, dark blobs are solder mounts for a chip, and the wavy background pattern is the flash memory chip. More on that later...

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