Studio Display Software is the operating system used on the Studio Display. It is a full operating system based on darwinOS, running on high-performance application processors such as the A13 Bionic.
The operating system is capable of being updated over USB-C by an attached Mac.
The full operating system is used to take advantage of the existing image processing developed by Apple for other iOS-based devices, which supports Center Stage. It is also assumed to handle the triple microphone array, also taking advantage of existing software-based noise cancellation.