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Electronic Design Magazine has taken it into their own hands to find out what is inside the best selling digital music player, piece-by-piece, chip-by-chip.

Their detailed analyses shows that the iPod is chock full of different companies parts including PortalPlayer, Samsung, Texas Instruments, Wolfson Microelectronics, and Linear Technology. In the third generation there were even power savings chips used from Royal Phillips Electronics. The iPod Mini also included a chip from PortalPlayer as well as components from Hitachi Microdrive, Linear Technology, Texas Instruments and National Semiconductor.

The tear-down also valued the components at about 50% of the price of the individual iPods.

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Electronic Design - Inside iPod