Amazon Kindle Fire for $ 199: The price of the $ 202

As expected by analysts tablet Kindle Fire is not profitable the Amazon itself. On the contrary, its sale unprofitable for Amazon, because the tablet is on sale for $ 199 assembled from components, the total value of which is about 202 dollars. It does not take into account the costs of its manufacturing, advertising and delivery to the user. To be precise, the components Amazon Kindle Fire cost $ 201.70. However, the company tried to Amazon to the maximum to optimize their costs, so the tablet components were selected on the basis of lowest cost. partly an attempt to save on the cost of the device can still be seen when viewing the formal characteristics of the device. Amazon Kindle Fire has only 4 GB of DRAM memory, while the majority of plates are equipped with 8 GB. Also built-in memory for storing content has only 8 GB and things like camera and Bluetooth-existent in the tablet from Amazon. At the same time, it was assumed that the cost of packaging and its contents would be about $ 5, in reality, the company managed to reduce these costs up to $ 2-3. In the long term cost of components will be reduced, in particular, it is expected that the total cost of components from Texas Instruments (CPU module Wi-Fi, audio, etc.) will decrease from $ 25 to $ 12, which will manufacture the tablet Kindle Fire economically more profitable. Some items are purchased from a little-known manufacturers such as Ilitek (touch screen controller) or Jorjin (wireless chip all-in-one). The assembly device performs a Taiwanese company Quanta Computer.