Mac transition to Intel processors: Difference between revisions

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The final version of [[Mac OS X]] that ran on PowerPC processors was [[Mac OS X Leopard|Leopard]], released in October 2007, with PowerPC binary translation support (using [[Rosetta (software)|Rosetta]]) persisting up through the following version, [[Mac OS X Snow Leopard|Snow Leopard]].<ref>{{cite press release | url=https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2008/06/09Apple-Previews-Mac-OS-X-Snow-Leopard-to-Developers/ | title=Apple Previews Mac OS X Snow Leopard to Developers | publisher=[[Apple Inc.|Apple]] | date=June 9, 2008 | access-date=2017-12-04 | archive-date=November 1, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171101112448/https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2008/06/09Apple-Previews-Mac-OS-X-Snow-Leopard-to-Developers/ | url-status=live }}</ref> Support was later dropped in [[Mac OS X Lion|Lion]].

In 2020, Apple announced that it would [[Mac transition to Apple silicon|shift its Mac line to Apple silicon]], which are [[ARM architecture|ARM]]-based processorssystems-on-a-chip developed in-house.<ref name="CNET1"/>

==Background==