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Vue éclatée de l'Apple Watch Series 6

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  • Like most brains, the grey matter in this Series 6 is pretty inscrutable: it's encased in hardened resin, as per usual, making further exploration extremely difficult.

  • Update: Unless you have an X-ray machine, that is! Here's an inside look at the S6 package. If you're wondering what all the tiny shapes are, check out the original Apple Watch X-ray teardown for an explainer.

  • There are a few more conventional ICs piggybacked onto the package, and we can at least spot a Skyworks chip marked 239-7. The other chips are more mysterious, and none is an exact match for the U1 chip we found in last year's iPhones.

  • It was probably too much to ask for a labeled U1 package, but there has been more obvious printing in the past.

  • Sans-brains, we can see the Series 6 frame has a slightly modified footprint with a narrower lip for the adhesive gasket, which is now carefully routed around the band mechanism.

  • The modified case and lack of Force Touch gasket probably accounts for the fact that this year's model is a hair thinner, with overall thickness at 10.4 mm (down from 10.74 mm last year).

  • Apple somehow packed more battery and more Taptic Engine into a (barely) smaller design. Impressive!

Comme toujours, la matière grise est plutôt impénétrable : elle est encastrée dans de la résine durcie qui, fidèle à ses habitudes, complique toute exploration plus poussée.

Il y a quelques CIs conventionnels sur le package. Nous arrivons à déceler au moins une puce Skyworks étiquetée 239-7. Les autres puces sont plus mystérieuses et aucune ne correspond à la puce U1 que nous avons trouvée dans les iPhone de l'année dernière.

C'était probablement trop d'espérer un package intitulé U1, mais il faut dire qu'il y a déjà eu des étiquettes plus évidentes dans le passé.

En observant le châssis écervelé de la Series 6, nous nous rendons compte que sa silhouette a été légèrement modifiée. Le support du joint adhésif est plus étroit et le joint s'enroule soigneusement autour du mécanisme du bracelet.

Le boîtier modifié et le joint Force Touch manquant sont probablement la raison du léger amincissement de ce modèle, épais au total de 10,4 mm (contre 10,74 l'année dernière).

Apple a donc réussi à caser plus de batterie et plus de Taptic Engine dans un boîtier (à peine) plus petit. Chapeau !

[* black] Like most brains, the grey matter in this Series 6 is pretty inscrutable: it's encased in hardened resin, as per usual, making further exploration extremely difficult.
+[* icon_reminder] ***Update***: Unless you have an X-ray machine, that is! [https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/1fUBUyR1aTV4WO5n.full|Here's an inside look at the S6 package|new_window=true]. If you're wondering what all the tiny shapes are, check out the [guide|41323|original Apple Watch X-ray teardown|stepid=95346] for an explainer.
[* black] There ''are'' a few more conventional ICs piggybacked onto the package, and we can at least spot a Skyworks chip marked 239-7. The other chips are more mysterious, and none is an exact match for the U1 chip we found in last year's iPhones.
[* icon_note] It was probably too much to ask for a labeled U1 package, but there ''has'' been [https://www.ifixit.com/News/33257/inside-the-tech-in-apples-ultra-wideband-u1-chip|more obvious printing in the past|new_window=true].
[* black] Sans-brains, we can see the Series 6 frame has a slightly modified footprint with a narrower lip for the adhesive gasket, which is now carefully routed around the band mechanism.
[* icon_reminder] The modified case and lack of Force Touch gasket probably accounts for the fact that this year's model is a hair thinner, with overall thickness at 10.4 mm (down from 10.74 mm last year).
[* black] Apple somehow packed more battery ''and'' more Taptic Engine into a (barely) smaller design. Impressive!

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