Xiaomi Mi 10 disassembled: Is it a good buy?

Lei Jun officially released the Xiaomi Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro phones to the public. The Mi 10 series phones are equipped with the latest flagship Snapdragon 865 processor, and the entire series uses LPDDR5 memory, WiFi 6, UFS 3.0 storage, 100-megapixel camera, etc. Among them, the Mi 10 Pro uses a 90Hz custom AMOLED curved screen, a 4500mAh bar battery, and uses faster 50W fast flash charging technology, which can charge to 100% in 45 minutes.

Recently, foreign media Techinsights disassembled the hardware of Xiaomi Mi 10 and analyzed the hardware cost. The preliminary cost analysis of the components in the Xiaomi Mi 10 5G phone (12GB+256GB) has been completed. According to estimates, the hardware manufacturing cost of Xiaomi Mi 10 5G is US$440 (approximately RMB 3,085).

IT Home reminds that the domestic price of Xiaomi 10 (12GB+256GB) is 4,699 yuan. Of course, in addition to the hardware cost, it is also necessary to add the initial R&D, labor costs, taxes, patent fees to other manufacturers, transportation costs and other costs, plus a part of the profit, which constitutes the final price of Xiaomi 10.

Both the Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro models are powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865 platform and are equipped with LPDDR5 memory. 

This Xiaomi Mi 10 phone uses 12GB LPDDR5-Samsung K3LK4K40BM-BGCN, Samsung LPDDR5 is packaged (PoP) with Snapdragon 865 (SM8250). The component is packaged with eight 12 Gb LPDDR5 chips K4L2E165Y8.

In the other two Xiaomi 10 phone models, it was found that 8 8 Gb LPDDR5 chips K4L8E165YE were packaged in Samsung's 8 GB K3LK3K30EM-BGCN LPDDR5.

The Snapdragon 865 (SM8250) is used in conjunction with an external 5G modem (Qualcomm Snapdragon SDX55 baseband).

IT Home learned that the chip size (sealed) of the Snapdragon 865 processor (SM8250) is 8.49mmx 9.84 mm= 83.54 mm2. Compared with the previously manufactured TSMC N7 Snapdragon 855 (SM8150) chip, the chip size area has increased by 14.02%.

Another new product from Qualcomm is the Wi-Fi 6/BT 5.1 wireless combo SoC QCA6391. This appears to be part of Qualcomm's FastConnect 6800 series.