Apple is introducing silicon chips for its Mac hardware. It is a “historic day for the Mac”. Tim Cook has given details about the transitions to PowerPC, Mac OS X. He has given details about moving to Intel chips before disclosing its proposals to use its own ARM-powered silicon in Mac in the near future. macOS will be benefiting native iOS apps and macOS apps alongside these machines having their own chips.
At the end of this year, Apple will come with its first mac having the silicon chip by Apple. The transition would be taking two more years. Intel-powered Macs are still in the line. So exclusively, Apple is not moving to ARM-based Macs. But then also, it is going to have a big shift from Intel-based silicon chips in Macs.
The biggest improvement is this trick to ARM-powered chips. They bring the capacity for iOS and iPadOS apps to operate natively on macOS in the future. Apple CEO says, “most apps will just work.” This means one will be able to operate native macOS apps alongside native iOS apps.
Its own apps will be updated in such a way that they could be used on the device with Apple silicon chips. According to Apple, “the vast majority of developers can get their apps up and running in a matter of days”.
Microsoft is working on Office updates for the new Mac silicon, and Word and Excel are already running natively on the new Mac processors, with PowerPoint even using Apple’s Metal tech for rendering. Apple has also been working with Adobe to get these pro apps up and running on these new chips. Apple demonstrated Lightroom and Photoshop running on the company’s new Macs, with a 5GB Photoshop PSD running natively with smooth animations.
Developers Will Be Provided With Mac Mini Cells
With this, Apple is ready to launch a “quick start” program for developers having sample code and documentation. This will offer them access to labs to help in the transition.
Developers will also be eligible to get entry to a Developer Transition Kit in the aspect of a Mac mini cell with Apple’s A12Z chip, 512GB SSD, and 16GB of RAM.
If reports are to be believed, the transition will take place because of slowing performance from Intel. Apple is testing ARM-based chips in Macs and has found the performance increase in the devices.
