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Just a few years ago, drones were a niche consumer item with just first adopters using them for aerial photography. Today, drones are everywhere, whether they are performing light shows during holidays, conducting field tests for industrial vendors, surveying caves for new minerals or being used by consumers for a variety of entertainment options.
At the center of the consumer drone sector is DJI, which has been rolling out multiple types of drones for at least a decade. As technology for cameras and flight have advanced, so have the drones that have become available for consumers.
That culminates in the DJI Mini 5 Pro drone, which now packs the same features as DJI’s larger drones into a smaller form factor. The drone has a 1-inch 50-megapixel sensor that improves the camera quality from the previous generation drone. It also shoots 4K video at 120 fps, which is also an improvement from previous models.
One of the most interesting features of the Mini 5 Pro drone is the inclusion of lidar and obstacle avoidance sensing capabilities. This allows the drone to detect and avoid obstacles at night, so it allows for even more potential photographic scenarios for hobbyists or professionals.
The following is a partial deep dive into the DJI Mini 5 Pro drone conducted by TechInsights.
Summary
- 4 GB Mobile LPDDR5 SDRAM
- 7x 1 MP CMOS camera
- 0.2 MP CMOS camera
- 50 MP CMOS camera
Released: September 2025
Price: $864.07
Availability: Worldwide
Target market: Professional, consumer
The main board that is found inside the DJI Mini 5 Pro drone. Source: TechInsights
Main board
The main board inside the DJI Mini 5 Pro drone includes a Qualcomm applications processor and main mobile LPDDR5 SDRAM memory from Micron Technology. Other electronic components on the main board include:
- AWINIC’s USB Type-C PD controller and class K audio amplifier
- Goertek’s digital barometric pressure sensor
- SGMicro’s 300 mA/3.3 V LDO regulator
- Nexperia’s bus buffer/line driver
- Texas Instruments’ 4-amp step-down converters, 5-amp battery charger and two-channel clock buffer
- Vergiga Semiconductor’s P-channel MOSFET
- Monolithic Power Systems’ 3-amp step-up/down-converter
- Unicore’s multi-GNSS positioning SoC
- Maxscend’s DPDT RF switches
- Yangtze Memory Technologies’ 64 GB NAND flash, memory controller
(Learn more about flash memory on Globalspec.com)
The lidar flex board that is found inside the DJI Mini 5 Pro drone. Source: TechInsights
Lidar flex board
The lidar flex board houses the lidar subsystem, which includes the VCSEL array driver from OPNOUS and a VCSEL array.
The remote control main board that is found inside the DJI Mini 5 Pro drone. Source: TechInsights
Controller main board
The controller main board is the heart of the drone remote control for the DJI Mini 5 Pro drone. It contains the following electronic components:
- Huada Semiconductor’s 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0+ microcontroller
- Silergy’s 3-amp step-up converter
- Qualcomm’s application processor
- 3peak’s single comparator
- Omnivision’s 300 mA/3.3-volt LDO regulator
- Southchip’s battery protection IC
- uPI Semiconductor’s dual N-channel MOSFET
- Texas Instruments’ battery charger with power path management
- ETA Solutions’ over-voltage protection
- GigaDevice’s serial flash memory
- CellWise Semiconductor’s battery fuel gauge
(Learn more about circuit protection ICs on Globalspec.com)
Major components
- $136.16 — Motor: brushless DC (Propeller) (Qty: 4)
- $134.59 — 50 MP main camera subsystem (Qty: 1)
- $47.61 — Multichip memory — 4 GB mobile LPDDR5 SDRAM — Micron (Qty: 1)
- $20.71 — Applications processor — Qualcomm (Qty: 1)
- $17.99 — Multichip memory — 64 GB NAND flash, memory controller (eMMC 5.1) — Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp (YMTC) (Qty: 1)
- $8.41 — Applications processor — Qualcomm — (Qty: 1)
- $8.41 — Video processor (Qty: 1)
- $7.08 — Drone battery subsystem — Xiamen (Qty: 1))
- $6.19 — Left front camera subsystem (Qty: 1)
- $6.19 — Left rear camera subsystem (Qty: 1)
