Apple IPhone 12: A breakdown of where its parts come from

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Yahoo Finance's Dan Howley breaks down where the Apple iPhone 12 parts come from.
The iPhone has revolutionized consumer technology, helping to create an app-based economy and propelling Apple (AAPL) to a $2 trillion market capitalization. After unveiling the iPhones in January 2007, Apple has since sold 2 billion units worldwide, with the phones making up the largest source of the company’s revenue.

And while Apple designs the phone in Cupertino, California, the tech giant sources parts for the phone from manufacturers from across the world. Apple’s latest and greatest, the iPhone 12, is no different, with parts coming from Japan, the U.S., Europe, China, and South Korea.

Here’s where the parts that make up your iPhone come from.

Samsung display
Apple often relies on Samsung to produce the OLED panels used for the iPhone’s Super Retina XDR display, despite the two tech giants’ rivalry, according to multiple sources including Wired. It also uses panels from Samsung’s competitor, LG, giving the iPhone one of the best smartphone displays around.

In previous generations, Apple used OLED panels for its high-end, Pro iPhone models and LCD panels for the standard iPhone models. LCD panels are generally brighter than OLED, but can’t offer the kind of vibrancy, or power savings, of OLED displays. With the iPhone 12, Apple moved the entire line to OLED, giving all of the phones the same style screen.

A14 Bionic processor
The beating heart of every iPhone 12 is Apple’s A14 Bionic processor. The chip, which is based on UK-based ARM’s architecture and designed by Apple, is among the most advanced smartphone processors in the world.

Using a 5-nanometer design process, something even chip maker Intel hasn’t produced at scale, the A14 features a central processing unit and graphics processing unit, as well as a 16-core neural engine for machine learning capabilities. Inside, the A14 uses two high-powered CPU (central processing unit) cores for resource intensive processes and four less energy intensive CPU cores for dealing with more basic apps.

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