The Chinese company iPhone5mod has a clone of the authenticatiechip that in the new lightning connector from Apple is used. This chip is crucial for the development of uncertified lightning accessories.
In the reverse-engineering of the new lightning connector was a few weeks ago a authenticatiechip in the connector found. Accessoirefabrikant iPhone5mod now reports to have both the official authenticatiechip of Apple as a clone of the chip. Until now, no single company managed the chip to crack and then to clone. The accessoirefabrikant brings no product with the cloned chip on the market, but says the chip is extensively tested and claims that the clone works just as well as the original chip.
With the introduction of the iPhone 5 got Apple about the new lightning connector. At the same time, the rules were of the Made for iPhone/iPad/iPod-program-sharpened. As a result, to date no manufacturer has been able to start the production of MFi-certified accessories that use the lightning connector. There is even a chance that manufacturers will not be able to be on time for the holidays official lightning products on the market.
The presence of a authenticatiechip in the lightning connector has prevented until now the production of uncertified accessories. Without this chip is the connector with the iPhone 5. Now a clone of the chip is published, the road seems to be for the production of more uncertified accessories open.
IPhone5mod says for the accessories that are now on the market, a luminous lightning-to-usb cable and a dock, to use the official chip. The product seems not, however, under the MFi program to fall.