Sony WF-1000XM6 FCC Teardown

The board to board connector is on the reverse side and not above the chips. With the resin covering the chips, we will not be able to see the chips, and more specifically the new QN3e. I do wonder if the scale of the components is accurate, if it is, it would suggest the QN3e is twice as large as the Sony V2.

If we compare the WF-1000XM5 chips, the Sony V2 and QN2e, were about the same size. So the increase in size is intriguing.

While browsing Sony WF-1000XM6 product page, I noticed this little tidbit:

Except this is incorrect. The QN1 is not found inside the WF-1000XM5, the QN2e is found inside the WF-1000XM5, as we can see this on the WF-1000XM5 product page and in the press release.

Edit, thanks to aborne25 from twitter, it seems that it is a translation error, as the Japanese Sony website, has the correct information.

So what gives? Anyone from Sony reading this and can clarify, either in the comments or by email? Are the QN1 and QN2e the same in terms of speed/performance? Or is this just a typo? See above for correction.

Back to the WF-1000XM6. With the chips covered in resin, anyone know any method to remove said resin without damaging the chips inside? I have a broken WF-1000XM5 and wanted to remove the resin, but nothing I tried has worked. Any ideas or tips, leave them in the comments.

This concludes the FCC teardown. I have a strong feeling 52Audio will have their teardown out in the near term. Once that goes up, we will get better sense how much has actually changed in terms of construction.