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    The AppleIntel architecture is an unofficial name used for Macintosh personal computers developed and manufactured by Apple Inc. that use Intel x86 processors...
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    transition to Apple silicon was the process of switching the central processing units (CPUs) of Apple's line of Mac computers from Intel's x86-64 processors...
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    The Mac transition to Intel processors was the process of switching the central processing units (CPUs) of Apple's line of Mac and Xserve computers from...
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  • several different instruction set architectures (ISA): the Motorola 68000 series, PowerPC, Intel x86, and ARM64 in Apple silicon. Each ISA is incompatible...
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    of either PowerPC or Intel architectures. Apple, however, continued to require native compatibility with both PowerPC and Intel in order to grant third-party...
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    M1 chip initiated Apple's third change to the instruction set architecture used by Macintosh computers, switching from Intel to Apple silicon fourteen...
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    generation of ARM architecture intended for Apple's Mac computers after switching from Intel Core to Apple silicon, succeeding the Apple M2. Apple announced the...
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  • it the first Apple operating system to work on AppleIntel architecture machines. The original Apple TV, released in March 2007, shipped with a customized...
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    designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Inc. Between 2006 and 2022, the iMac series used chipsets based on Intel architecture. While sold, it was one of three...
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    Apple's built-in hypervisor, UTM can use macOS's Rosetta software to efficiently run x86-64 code on ARM processors. UTM runs on both Intel and Apple silicon...
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    can be directly executed as UEFI images. On Apple Mac computers using Intel x86-64 processor architecture, the EFI system partition is initially left...
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  • MacOS (redirect from Apple Mac OS X)
    architectures: originally PowerPC-based Macs in 1999; Intel Core-based Macs from 2006; and self-designed 64-bit Arm Apple M series Macs since 2020. A prominent part...
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    X86-64 (redirect from Intel 64)
    was the first significant addition to the x86 architecture designed by a company other than Intel. Intel was forced to follow suit and introduced a modified...
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  • with Intel processors, with support further-limited to selected iMac, MacBook Pro, and Mac Pro models; all future versions will only support Apple silicon...
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  • generation), and is the fourth generation of the M series Apple silicon architecture, succeeding the Apple M3. The M4 series is built upon TSMC's second-generation...
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    CEO of Apple, announced that Apple would be transitioning the Macintosh from its long favored PowerPC architecture to the Intel x86 architecture because...
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    Mini was introduced with the PowerPC G4 CPU. In February 2006, Apple switched to an Intel Core Solo CPU. A thinner unibody redesign, unveiled in June 2010...
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  • of external peripherals to a computer. It was developed by Intel in collaboration with Apple. It was initially marketed under the name Light Peak, and...
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    contains information about Intel's GPUs (see Intel Graphics Technology) and motherboard graphics chipsets in table form. In 1982, Intel licensed the NEC μPD7220...
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    PowerPC to an Intel-based x86-64 architecture. A second Developer Transition Kit was made available in 2020 prior to the Mac transition to Apple silicon as...
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    This generational list of Intel processors attempts to present all of Intel's processors from the 4-bit 4004 (1971) to the present high-end offerings...
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  • supported on Intel processors with Rosetta. 4.↑ 64-bit Intel applications are supported on Apple silicon Macs with Rosetta 2. However, Intel-based Macs...
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    hardware and software: Apple A7 SoC or later with iOS 8 or later Apple M1 SoC or later with macOS 11 or later Intel Processor with Intel HD and Iris Graphics...
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  • mainstream virtualization to Macintosh computers utilizing the AppleIntel architecture (earlier software products ran PC software in an emulated environment)...
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    The Intel-based MacBook Pro is a discontinued line of Macintosh notebook computers sold by Apple Inc. from 2006 to 2021. It was the higher-end model of...
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  • Intel x86 processors, during 2006. AppleIntel architecture – the architecture of Intel-based Apple computers, using Intel x86 processors rather than the...
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  • designed by Intel and officially released on December 14, 2023. It is the first generation of Intel mobile processors to use a chiplet architecture which means...
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    November 2008 on the Nehalem architecture, whose main advantage came from redesigned I/O and memory systems featuring the new Intel QuickPath Interconnect and...
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  • Real3D and Lockheed Martin. Later, Intel integrated the i740 core into the Intel 810 northbridge. The original architecture of GMA systems supported only a...
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    Mac Pro (redirect from Apple Mac Pro)
    architecture Intel Xeon processors. In December 2013, Apple released a new cylindrical Mac Pro (colloquially called the "trash can Mac Pro"). Apple said...
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