iPad Mini was launched on Friday by Apple, it has been in production for several months, and the people from IHS bought several models, disassembled them, and now I tell us that Apple produces the tablet for at least $188. They analyzed all the components of the tablet, identified the manufacturers and adding the costs they say that $188 is the production price of the iPad Mini Wi-Fi Only 16 GB. For the 32 or 64 GB models, the selling prices increase by $90 and $162, respectively, but Apple pays $15.50 for the 16 GB memory modules, pays only $15 more to double this capacity and only $46 more to offer 4 times more space.
Breaking down the costs, the screen and its adjacent components have the highest price, they add up to approximately 40% of the total production cost of the tablet. LG and Au Optronic produce the tablet screen, Samsung produces that A5 chip that we initially saw in March in the iPad 2, Hynix and Elpida produce the flash memory in which the data is stored, and the rest of the smaller components are manufactured by third-party manufacturers. This estimate made by IHS is not 100% certain, it is based only on assumptions, so the final price could be higher or lower.
