A disassembled… and blown-up 2020 DTK

Seen on Twitter, a 2020 DTK (the Developer Transition Kit used during the Apple Silicon transition).

More specifically, it’s the motherboard, and it has been destroyed: you can see a drill hole going through the Wi-Fi card (I think). One of the photos also shows that the flash memory (the SSD) is missing (again, I believe). I assume this was Apple’s process after receiving returns, before sending them off for recycling.



The A12Z SoC




This won’t work so well anymore