Google Home shares the Chromecast's guts, teardown reveals

The Amazon Echo challenger Google Home is now available, and the teardown kings at iFixit wasted no time in ripping one apart. What they found inside wasn't all that exciting, but iFixit did discover that Google Home is a close cousin of the 2015 Chromecast owing to the similarity of components on both motherboards. Google Home has a Texas Instruments TAS5720 audio amplifier, for example, which the Chromecast doesn't need. However, both devices are rocking the same dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 media processor, and the the same kind of Toshiba NAND flash for internal storage--the Chromecast has 2GB onboard, while Google Home has 256MB. The two devices are also rocking the same Marvell Avastar wireless connectivity module for WLAN, Bluetooth, and NFC, and similar SDRAM from Samsung.