Amazon Fire TV is literally one hot box, teardown reveals
Amazon.com’s Fire TV could generate a lot of heat, both literally and figuratively. A tear-down analysis of the $99 Internet streaming video box by iFixit shows that Amazon Fire TV uses considerable space to disperse heat from its quad-core, 1.7 gigahertz processor, the Qualcomm Krait 300. The iFixit team posted its pun-filled article about the Amazon Fire TV tear down on Thursday. “Fire seems to put off a lot of heat,” iFixit says . “To keep this toasty box from catching fire, Amazon (AMZN) included a heatsink that fills most of the bottom case.” It also uses thermal glue to cool the main processor down. Besides the main processor, Qualcomm (QCOM) scores four other chips in the box: its Adreno 320 dedicated graphics processor, a power management chip, a PCI Express fast Ethernet controller and an Atheros wireless networking chip. A look at other components in the Fire TV reveals that …