iFixit

Lifting the logic board and display assembly out of its plastic housing.

There is no protective covering over the display. The display seen from the outside is the actual E-Ink panel.

Even with the battery completely removed, the screen displays a crystal clear image.

The display is held by a "window frame" of adhesive. Gentle prods and twists from all sides with a plastic opening tool separated the display.

Removing the display reveals a bunch of vias on the PCB. Nothing too terribly exciting.

The logic board after removing the silver EMI shields.

The majority of the larger chips are made by Freescale, Samsung and Epson.

On the center-left side of the board is an outline of a SIM card with empty headers. Amazon left a opening in the plastic framework revealing this region. Was this left in for development and debugging?

A close-up shot of the center area of the board.

The large MC13783VK5 is a Freescale battery power management chip.

The ISP1105 (smaller chip in the left enclosed area) is a USB transceiver.

The main processor is in the upper left. The Freescale chip is labeled MCIMX31LVKN5C M91E CTAH0850V. It's a 532 MHz, ARM-11 90nm 14mm package.

To the right of the processor, the Samsung K4X1G323PC is a 32MB mobile DDR SDRAM chip. There another Samsung SDRAM chip in the lower right.

The large Samsung package in the lower left is the Kindle's main memory. It's a 2 GB moviNAND package, which includes both flash memory and the cotroller.

The co-branded Epson and E-Ink chip on the right is the display controller. It is a PFBGA package that supports "high speed screen updates (2048x1536 at 50Hz+)."

The complete disassembly of the Kindle 2.

It seems to be the type of device that people will not bother modding... Or will they? Only time will tell.