Flixy TV Stick Brings You Global Channels Instantly

AntoineCha

Teardown: What makes the Amazon Fire tv stick flixy Stick tick? I had a model new first-technology Amazon Fire TV Stick lying round, which I’d never gotten round to tearing down (we’re a predominantly Roku family), so I gave it to him as a Christmas present. Alas, he wasn’t able to get it on-line, and neither Comcast nor Amazon was capable of efficiently resolve whatever subject he was having with it, so Amazon sent him a alternative unit (which works wonderful). He gave the unique back to me (minus the remote control, which is now in use with the replacement Stick), so I’ve revisited my previous teardown plan to see how it compares to the Roku Streaming Stick, whose teardown EDN published back in January. The PCB-embedded Bluetooth and Wi-Fi antenna constructions are clearly seen, but we’re going to should do something about that Faraday Cage. The bigger of the 2 dominant ICs is the system processor, Broadcom’s BCM28155, containing (among different things) a twin-core Arm Cortex-A9 CPU array operating at 1 GHz and a VideoCore IV graphics core.