The new Nintendo DSi may look like a cosmetic upgrade (two cameras, downloadable games), but under the hood, it’s been seriously turbocharged. The DSi’s processor is twice as powerful as the old model and the device packs four times as much RAM as the earlier models.
Wired.com’s Chris Kohler will be weighing in on what all this power means later today, over in the Game|Life blog. In the meantime, here’s some pretty DSi teardown porn from iFixit.com, which stripped a brand-new DSi down to its components.
Highlights of the teardown:
- Battery capacity is diminished: there’s an 840 mAh battery in the DSi compared to the DS Lite’s 1000 mAh battery.
- No Game Boy Advance port
- Two integrated cameras, each with a paltry 0.3 megapixels
- 256MB of Samsung MoviNAND flash memory
- Custom ARM CPU + GPU
iFixit reports that the Wi-Fi chip, shown here, is held in with a single connector, and that "a quick wedge-and-twist action of the spudger releases it from the main board." Any idea what a "spudger" is?
The dissected DSi. Chips of interest, according to iFixit, include, from left to right:
Samsung 1st generation MoviNAND
KMAPF0000M: 256 MB NAND Flash and MMC controller. The integrated MMC
controller allows the CPU to offload the complex work of directly
talking to the flash memory.82DBS08164D-70L: Fujitsu Ltd 128-bit FCRAM (fast-cycle RAM) chip.
Nintendo’s custom ARM CPU. Our CPU was manufactured in September of 2008.
Nintendo DSi First Look [iFixit.com]
Photos courtesy of iFixit.com
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