MacRumors

Apple's Lightning Digital AV Adapter is a Full-Fledged Computer

Panic, the developers behind apps like Coda and Transmit, spent some time disassembling the Lightning Digital AV cable that allows iOS devices like the iPad mini and the iPhone 5 to output HDMI to ...
ExtremeTech

One reason for Apple's overpriced cables: The Lightning digital AV adapter has its own ARM SoC

Sending video from your phone or tablet to your TV is very useful, and many options exist for doing so wirelessly -- though most existing solutions are highly compressed and quite laggy. Obviously, a ...
Cult of Mac

Apple’s Lightning Digital AV Adapter Has An Incredible Secret

Over the weekend, a fascinating little post over on the Panic weblog revealed that the Lightning AV adapter meant to send video out from a connected iPhone or iPad over HDMI had an interesting little ...
AppleInsider

ARM chip found in Apple's Lightning Digital AV Adapter could be AirPlay decoder

A recent teardown of Apple's Digital AV Adapter for Lightning connectors reveals that the unit comes with an embedded ARM system on a chip, complete with 256MB of RAM, which some speculate acts as an ...
9to5Mac

The Lightning Digital AV Adapter doesn’t do native 1080P out, possibly because it is an AirPlay receiver

The fine software developers over at Panic are working on some new AV software, and they are investigating Apple’s new-ish Lightning Digital AV Adapter. What they found is that unlike the earlier ...
AppleInsider

Apple AV Adapter's embedded ARM chip reportedly used for future proofing, not AirPlay decoding

The ARM system on a chip found to be embedded in Apple's Digital AV Adapter for Lightning connector does not, according to reports, support AirPlay, but instead serves as a means of offloading ...