Intel promises to support two-year transition to Apple Silicon
Intel says it will continue to support Apple "across several areas of business," while insisting that its processors give a better experience than Apple Silicon.
Tim Cook says the transition away from Intel will take two years
In a statement to AppleInsider, Intel says that Apple remains a customer and that the company plans to continuing supporting them. This comes after Apple's announcement that it is transitioning away from using Intel processors, which Tim Cook says will take two years to complete.
"Apple is a customer across several areas of business," said an Intel spokesperson, "and we will continue to support them."
"Intel remains focused on delivering the most advanced PC experiences and a wide range of technology choices that redefine computing," continued the statement. "We believe Intel-powered PCs-- like those based on our forthcoming Tiger Lake mobile platform-- provide global customers the best experience in the areas they value most, as well as the most open platform for developers, both today and into the future."
At the end of Tim Cook's keynote, the Apple CEO stressed that the company was not cutting off Intel immediately.
"We expect to ship our first Mac with Apple silicon by the end of this year, and we expect the transition to take about two years," he said. "We plan to continue to support and release new versions of Mac OS for Intel based Macs for years to come."
"In fact, we have some new Intel based Macs in the pipeline that we're really excited about," he continued.
Apple released its first Apple Silicon-based Mac alongside the announcement, although solely a Developer Transition Kit which will not go on sale to the public.
Tim Cook says the transition away from Intel will take two years
In a statement to AppleInsider, Intel says that Apple remains a customer and that the company plans to continuing supporting them. This comes after Apple's announcement that it is transitioning away from using Intel processors, which Tim Cook says will take two years to complete.
"Apple is a customer across several areas of business," said an Intel spokesperson, "and we will continue to support them."
"Intel remains focused on delivering the most advanced PC experiences and a wide range of technology choices that redefine computing," continued the statement. "We believe Intel-powered PCs-- like those based on our forthcoming Tiger Lake mobile platform-- provide global customers the best experience in the areas they value most, as well as the most open platform for developers, both today and into the future."
At the end of Tim Cook's keynote, the Apple CEO stressed that the company was not cutting off Intel immediately.
"We expect to ship our first Mac with Apple silicon by the end of this year, and we expect the transition to take about two years," he said. "We plan to continue to support and release new versions of Mac OS for Intel based Macs for years to come."
"In fact, we have some new Intel based Macs in the pipeline that we're really excited about," he continued.
Apple released its first Apple Silicon-based Mac alongside the announcement, although solely a Developer Transition Kit which will not go on sale to the public.
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It will be interesting to see the benchmarks and what Apple comes up with.
Having seen how Apple just wiped the floor of the ARM competition with their A-series chips over the years, I have no doubt it'll do the same with Intel next.
meanwhile apple shows final cut, creative cloud and office on the nearly 2yr old A12z running in a $500 mac mini with no discrete gpu - smoother and with real time video effects at 4k.
bahahahahaha, i have been waiting for this moment for about 8yrs now, seeing each intentional step by Apple.
And there is a version of Windows 10 that runs on the ARM architecture. But as many times as I've heard people point that out - it misses the point. Even if that does run on "Apple Silicon", which we don't know for sure, people don't run Windows on Macs to run Windows per se. They do it to run Windows applications, which very rarely have ARM versions.
People that need to run Bootcamp or Windows under emulation can still buy an Intel Mac.
In time, it will ultimately become a choice of better performance or Windows support.
I'll be buying ARM for better performance.
The demos shown running on that A12Z were pretty impressive, I especially liked the Maya demo.
The A12Z is a tweaked version of the 2-year-old silicon, so what chip will the first ARM Mac launch with?
My guess is it will be an A13Z
What happens if they can release a MacPro with multiple A14Z processors in two years' time?
I've upgraded with Apple the first generation of each move; first-gen PowerPC, and first-gen Intel.
Apple has always got it right.
My first day bought Intel MacBook Pro lasted me over 7 years with not a single fault.
The next few years are gonna be exciting!
Intel has no-one to blame but themselves for not advancing. I wouldn't be buying Intel stock right now...
I hope the Apple-Intel divorce remains amicable. I guess it’ll come down to who gets custody of the dog.
But the real threat is if Apple decides to start producing server class silicon or perhaps licensing it...
Either way it's going to be years of macOS and software support on Intel Macs, and ARM Macs will start with far fewer native 3rd party apps but those will increase with time. So if you need an iMac this year, buy the one that comes out next and you'll have a solid machine for years. If you need a MacBook and they release a new ARM-based one when you need it, consider getting that one assuming it runs everything you need it to, and you're set for the future. Seems pretty clear.
And, what about the Mac Pro? There isn't Apple Silicon that can match the performance of a souped-up Mac Pro...