Article 4M5HT Teardown of Apple's lightning-to-HDMI adapter, which turns out to be a tiny computer with 256MB of RAM

Teardown of Apple's lightning-to-HDMI adapter, which turns out to be a tiny computer with 256MB of RAM

by
Rob Beschizza
from on (#4M5HT)

Everything's a computer these days, obviously, but this one is surprisingly elaborate given the apparent simplicity of what it does. Lisa Braun on Twitter: "Here is my little thread about Lightning video adapters - also known as Haywire - which are actually computers that feature Apple Secure Boot and run Darwin kernel."

Now you know why they're so unreliable! "Haywire" indeed!

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