Apple costs 20% more to make an iPhone 14 Pro Max than an iPhone 13 Pro Max

The high-end iPhone 14 is said to be more expensive to manufacture than last year’s models. Nikki Asia, who studied the internals of the iPhone 14 Pro Max. The cited source claims that the production now 20% more expensive compared to 2021; as some parts of the equipment have since risen in price.

Estimated Nikki Asiaproduction The iPhone 14 Pro Max, which retails for $1,099 in the US, costs Apple $501.. The portal claims that the difference compared to the iPhone 13 Pro Max is more than $60, so the production of the predecessor model will cost the company about $440.

However, they claim that Apple has paid between $400 and $450 to produce models with the largest screen size since 2018, the last year that manufacturing prices rose.

Some components of the iPhone 14 Pro are up to 50% more expensive

This price increase is due to the increased cost of some of the components that make up the iPhone 14 Pro, including the A16 Bionic chip. This one in particular costs Apple $110. Namely, over 2.4 times what the A15 Bionic chip cost them. However, the company can only bet on two manufacturers with the ability to mass-assemble SoCs on a 4nm process: Samsung and TSMC, and this makes it difficult for Apple to find other suppliers offering a better price.

The new cameras on the iPhone 14 Pro are also more expensive compared to the iPhone 13 Pro because they have a new larger Sony CMOS sensor. whose price is 15 dollars. On the other hand, the main sensor of previous models cost about $7.50: 50% less.

Fortunately, Apple sells more iPhone 14 Pro than iPhone 14, so the profit margin is higher. On the other hand, not taking into account that the company has raised the prices of its models in some markets. Among them is Spain, where new iPhones cost up to 15% more due to parity between the euro and the dollar.