Roku 3 Teardown: A Look Inside The New Box

Now that the new Roku 3 is out, I’ve cracked one open to take a look at the inside. You can clearly see HDMI, ethernet, power, USB ports and IR receiver. I’m no silicon expert but the chips I see are for the power supply, AV/DAC, ethernet/USB, Broadcom A9 processor and what looks to be two banks of NAND flash memory. Maybe someone who knows more than me when it comes to chips can say how much memory the Roku 3 has. I’ve also included a photo of the board from inside the remote control as well, but a word to the wise. Opening the Roku is easy, but you’ll most likely damage the remote when you take it apart.

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  • jwhazel

    Assuming there are no ram chips on the underside it’s 512MB of DDR3

  • http://www.facebook.com/denis.oleynik.90 Denis Oleynik

    Hi dan, thanks for pictures!
    Could you please show how builtin wi-fi is realised…?

  • csavia

    Roku 3 has two pieces of Micron 2Gb DDR3 components, for a total of 512MB system memory.

  • Alexis

    What about CPU? any model number or speed?

  • csavia

    Broadcom BCM11130 from the Merlyn family. 1080p dual core Apps processor

  • Jacob

    I can’t identify the IR receiver – can anyone help me with that?