topic Re: Rumors of Apple switching to ARM processors in Installation & update

Rumors of Apple switching to ARM processors

deivarch — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 22:42:48 GMT

This may be a little off-topic, but I've heard rumors that Apple may transition to running Mac on ARM processors instead of Intel-based processors. If this were to happen, would Graphisoft keep supporting Mac? Also, would this trigger adding iPad Pro native support for Archicad?

Re: Rumors of Apple switching to ARM processors

Ralph Wessel — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 20:57:43 GMT

It's possible they may switch - Apple has switched processors several times in the past.

It would be unlikely to impact on software developed for the Mac. In the first instance, Apple has always provided backward compatibility for software compiled on a previous processor when a switch occurs. And secondly, Apple's developer software is already capable of targeting multiple processors – so existing code could like be rebuilt for the new processor with minimal fuss.

The biggest hot would be to software like Parallels Desktop running Windows – it runs really well when using the Intel platform because that's native for Windows.

Re: Rumors of Apple switching to ARM processors

Jacques Toerien — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 20:09:39 GMT

Not a rumour anymore.

I hope GS have a few of those arm development Mac minis on order....

Re: Rumors of Apple switching to ARM processors

deivarch — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 16:13:51 GMT

During the AC24 release even, Akos did confirm they have the developer Mac mini from Apple with the Apple Silicon chipset in it. He also confirmed that AC24 already works on it, but they'll be further optimizing it.