Apple announces ARM transition
Macs to be Apple silicon powered, ending Intel era
EDITED BY ROB MEAD-GREEN
Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) lived up to its billing in June with new versions of macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and tvOS (see main feature, p14), but it was Apple’s future plans for the Mac that caused the biggest buzz of all.
That’s because, as expected, Apple is moving away from putting Intel silicon at the heart of the Mac, and putting its own-design ARM-based chips in there instead, with the transition beginning with products being announced later this year, and concluding by the end of 2022 - that means every Mac from the MacBook Air to the Mac Pro will eventually have Apple not Intel inside.