The cool cats at iFixit have completed a second teardown to the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro with LiDAR.
The teardown is brief, and required the use of guitar picks and a hairdryer, as opposed to a warming pad to release adhesives. Similar to the 2018 iPad Pro, the rear cover has to be twisted for the removal of cables and screwed-on shields to fully free it.
The new camera module separates via a few screws, with a 10-megapixel ultra-wide module along with a 12-megapixel wide camera, and the LiDAR scanner, which as previously revealed is made up of two lens-capped modules stacked on top of each other. It is speculated the modules consist of a VCSEL transmitter and a receiving sensor, with the former putting out an array of infrared dots that are picked up by the sensor.
The new iPad Pro uses an infrared camera, and the teardown noted that the LiDAR system emits a regular pattern of dots, which is considerably fewer than used by the TrueDepth camera. This camera, which isn’t intended for Face ID-style applications and uses, seems to aim for simplified depth mapping over a wider range, as opposed to mapping finer requirements of a face.
The front-facing cameras are removed in a single assembly, with similar hardware as the previous module. The USB-C port is still modular at the base, rather than a hard-wired component, making it a easy to repair.
The logic board is clued to the inside with wires running underneath it, and is flanked by the tablets batteries. The unit features an A12Z Bionic chip with 6GB of RAM, up from 4GB of RAM found in previous models.
The batteries are held in place with stretch-release adhesive, although regular adhesive is still used in some areas, making it hard to replace them. The two battery cells have a total capacity of 36.59 watt-hours, the same as the model it is replacing.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via iFixit and AppleInsider