I have no special knowledge about this, but Chipworks is a well-respected Ottawa (Ontario, Canada) company that has been doing silicon-level reverse engineering

I have no special knowledge about this, but Chipworks is a well-respected Ottawa (Ontario, Canada) company that has been doing silicon-level reverse engineering and teardowns for a while. It looks like they're part of TechInsights now, but seems like the right kind of crew to be doing this. See eg. some silicon analysis on the iPhone 7 http://www.techinsights.com/about-techinsights/overview/blog/stmicroelectronics-time-of-flight-sensors-and-the-starship-enterprise/ http://www.techinsights.com/about-techinsights/overview/blog...