The next chip transition came a dozen years later, in 2006, when Apple shipped the first Macs to run on Intel processors instead of PowerPC. Again, Apple provided emulation technology (called Rosetta) to ease the transition across processors. And like the first transition, it was a fairly orderly one. The entire product line was refreshed on a new processor line, software was updated, and within a year or two things seemed entirely normal again.Īpple’s Steve Jobs (left) and Intel’s Paul Otellini (right) announce about Apple’s implementation of Intel processors in Macintosh computers. If Apple begins a chip transition for the Mac in 2020, it’ll be 14 years since the previous transition, meaning that Apple will have kept the Intel architecture longer than either of the previous ones.
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