(Reuters) ? Amazon.com Inc's Kindle Fire tablet computer uses components from Texas Instruments, Samsung and Hynix Semiconductor, according to repair firm iFixit, which cracked the device open on Tuesday.
Amazon's first tablet computer shipped on Monday and the largest Internet retailer is expected to sell as many as five million of the devices in the fourth quarter and more next year.
While that is not as many units as Apple Inc's market-leading iPad tablet, it is enough that investors have been watching to see which components are in the new device.
"Three to five million units per quarter could be meaningful for certain component makers," said Brad Gastwirth, of independent research firm ABR Investment Strategy, LLC.
"For the fourth quarter, three to five million is pretty much baked in but if this grows to significantly more per quarter, it will become very significant to many component companies," he added.
IFixit opened the Kindle Fire on Tuesday and an early look inside showed that the device includes chips made by Texas Instruments, Samsung and Hynix, said Miroslav Djuric, director of technical communication at iFixit.
Samsung supplied the 8 gigabyte flash memory chip, while Hynix made a DDR 2 RAM component for the device, Djuric said.
The Texas Instrument component appeared to be a "Fully Integrated Power Management with Switch Mode Charger," Djuric added.
It was not immediately clear what company made the main application processor for the Kindle Fire. This major component processor appeared to be buried beneath the Hynix RAM, Djuric said.
(Reporting by Alistair Barr and Noel Randewich in San Francisco; Editing by Gary Hill)
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