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Well, this display is screwed...to the case. Luckily, we have a BS degree in removing screws, so this poses no challenge.

Rather than enjoy the 264 pixels per inch on this brand new device, we opt to remove the acclaimed display. Why? Because we're iFixit, and that's how we roll.

As we lift the LCD, we hear the cries of 3,145,728 pixels being dislodged from their homes inside the iPad 3.

It's time to cut spudge the umbilical cord on the display and touchscreen.

As we mentioned in our sneak-peek video, the display connectors in the iPad 2 and iPad 3 are different, meaning the two displays are incompatible...for now.

The model numbers on the back of the 9.7 inch LCD lead us to believe this is a Samsung LCD.

Beside the numbers we find three mysterious matrix barcodes. They allure the teardown expert, a dubious distraction indeed. What do they do? Our best guess: crash your iPhone or turn it into an iPad...scan at your own risk.

Connectors and screws, connectors and screws, to secure a logic board, that's what you use!

We might not be very good at writing poetry, but with spudger and screwdriver in hand, we are masters of our craft.

Come now, iPad. Let go of your logic board, please.

Thank you Siri... Siri? Are you there? (silence)

The logic board is out!

Using some leftover pixie dust from our iPhone 4S teardown, we will remove the EMI Shields to fly off so we can take a peek at the logic board.

Chips, Chips, Chips. Here's some of the salsa on the non-A5X side of the logic board:

• Texas Instruments CD3240 driver device
• Broadcom BCM4330 802.11a/b/g/n MAC/baseband/radio with integrated Bluetooth 4.0+HS and FM transceiver
• 2 x 4Gb Elpida LP DDR2 = 1 GB DRAM in separate packages in a 64-bit configuration
• Fairchild FDMC 6683
• Broadcom BCM5973 I/O controller
• Broadcom BCM5974 microprocessor
• Apple 338S0987 (Cirrus Logic audio codec)

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