What chips are inside the AppleTV unit
AppleTV box uses an assortment of chips to allow people to wirelessly stream
and store digital content stored in their iTunes library to their televisions.
It comes standard with 40GB of storage that can store 50 hours worth of
video, and costs $299. There are already several 3rd party vendors offering hard drive upgrades to allow for more video storage on the units.
The CPU chip is Intel, Wi-Fi is provided by Broadcom, Video is an Nvidia graphics processor and
Marvell Tech is making the hard-disk drive chip. Analysts from Prudential
Equity have cracked open the AppleTV to value the parts. MarketWatch