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Yup you read that right! 


According to a new and interesting news, confirmed in Apple's WWDC' 20, Apple is reportedly switching from Intel manufactured processors to their own ARM based chips which Apple calls "Apple Silicone". The biggest problem that Apple faces in this "shift" is that alot of programs are not programmed to directly work with ARM chips and surely there will be stability issues which is huge for a production machine such as the macbook however Apple has said that It had Microsoft and Adobe among other companies updating their software (Microsoft Office, Adobe Suite) to work with their new chips, tho only time will tell how it's going to be!

What do you think about this? I think Its a really bold change, however Apple are industry leaders so if this works other companies soon might follow!

This shift isn’t as problematic as people make it seem like.

First of all, Apple clearly said they’ll continue supporting the intel line-up of their macs. For a matter of fact, they even said they have new intel-based macs on the line. So users have the full choice on which they would get. And apple clearly said the switch is a two year process, which gives devs plenty of time to do whatever (which they don’t have to do much as described in the next paragraph).

Secondly, xcode, which is apple’s development environment that devs use to write their programs, will immediately give them an option to simply compile their programs to a binary that supports both intel (x86-64) and ARM... so all the devs really have to do is click a button. It’s the same method used when compiling programs from source yourself (which I’m sure the majority of the VPS holders here have at least done once or twice).

Thirdly, MacOS has a new feature that translates the intel (x86-64) programs to ARM in real time... which they beautifully demonstrated by showing us an x86-64 game running perfectly on their ARM demo mac.

And finally, they’ve got a built-in virtual machine software allowing you to run a VM of whatever x86-64 OS you want. So that’s not an issue either.

In my opinion, apple provided all the tools/features required to make this transition seamless with minimal effect! Which is insanely impressive... I’ve never seen architectural shifts being done this smoothly and painlessly!