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The Apple Watch Series 11 is the current flagship smartwatch that runs on the new WatchOS 26 operating system.
The watch is designed to offer a range of health, fitness, safety and connectivity features. Plus, the watch can be used to answer messages, stream music and take calls. The Watch Series 11 also has enhanced features like hypertension notifications, sleep tracking and advanced activity metrics.
The watch is powered by Apple’s S10 chip with a 64-bit dual-core processor and a four-core neural engine. Sensors include optical heart sensor, electrical heart sensor for ECG, blood oxygen sensor, temperature sensor, compass, altimeter, gyroscope, accelerometer and ambient light sensor.
TechInsights reverse engineered the Apple Watch Series 11 to find out what’s inside the device. What follows is a partial deep dive into that teardown conducted by TechInsights.
Summary
1.99 in, AMOLED — Plastic, 496/416 pixels, 16777216 colors
2 GB Mobile LPDDR5 SDRAM
Released: September 2025
Price: $529
Availability: Worldwide
Target market: Consumer
The main board found inside the Apple Watch Series 11. Source: TechInsights
Main board
The main board of the Apple Watch Series 11 includes the main baseband processor from Apple and secondary processor from MediaTek, and multi-chip memory from SK Hynix. Other electronic components on the board include:
- Apple’s Wi-Fi 4/Bluetooth 5.3 and audio CODEC
- Broadcom’s dual frequency GPS receiver w/sensor hub, battery charger and MB/HB front-end module
- Sony’s RF switch
- Murata’s RF LNA/switch
- Skyworks’ LB front-end module
- MediaTek’s power management IC
- ST Microelectronics’ serial EEPROM memory and authentication IC
- Qorvo’s GPIO interface
- SiTime’s MEMS oscillator
- Bosch Sensortec’s six-axis MEMS accelerator and gyroscope
(Learn more about timing circuits on Globalspec.com)
Sensor board
The sensor board of the Apple Watch Series 11 includes the following electronic components:
- AMS’ digital temperature sensor
- Broadcom’s wireless power receiver and LED driver/signal processor
- Analog Devices’ operational amplifier
- Qorvo’s RF antenna tuner
(Learn more about sensors on Globalspec.com)
The display board found inside the Apple Watch Series 11. Source: TechInsights
Display board
The display board on the Apple Watch 11 includes:
- Apple’s display power management and capacitive touchscreen controller
- LX Semicon’s OLED display driver
- AMS’ digital temperature sensor
(Learn more about discrete components on Globalspec.com)
Some of the electronic components found inside the Apple Watch Series 11. Source: TechInsights
Major components
- $34.48 — Display/touchscreen subsystem (Qty: 1)
- $23.90 — 64-Bit dual-core application processor w/power management — Apple — (Qty: 1)
- $11.16 — Multichip memory — 2 GB mobile LPDDR5 SDRAM, 64 GB 3D NAND Flash — SK Hynix (Qty: 1)
- $7.68 — Main Frame (Qty: 1)
- $6.86 — Baseband processor/RF transceiver w/memory — MediaTek (Qty: 1)
- $5.44 — U2 UWB module — USI (Qty: 1)
- $4.51 — MB/HB front-end module — Broadcom (Qty: 1)
- $3.80 — Wi-Fi 4/Bluetooth 5.3 — Apple (Qty: 1)
- $3.22 — LB front-end module — Skyworks (Qty: 1)
- $3.12 — Small passive: Cap, Res, Ferrite (Qty: 780)
