Apple's custom ARM-based processor family (including the M-series) that powers modern Macs, succeeding Intel chips since 2020.
Cook's successor spent 25 years making hardware fit together, and he inherits an iPhone event next week plus a Siri rebuild that runs on Gemini. The pairing says what Apple now thinks its job is.
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The ONNX export alone ran 1.58x faster than eager PyTorch with bit-identical accuracy. The int8 pass after it cost 8% in latency and bought a 64 MB download, small enough to serve as a static page with no backend.
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Apple's developer note dates macOS 27 as the last release that runs Intel-only apps on Apple silicon, so every unmaintained binary and every Intel-only plug-in on a Mac fleet needs a decision before macOS 28 ships.
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IODisplaySetFloatParameter still returns cleanly on an M-series Mac while the backlight ignores it. The only working replacement is undeclared, so dlopen and dlsym are what separate a lost feature from a dyld abort.
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A C benchmark on Apple Silicon puts a plain loop reorder 6.3x over naive and the best tile size 11% behind that, which suggests the first move on a hot loop is a stride check rather than a blocking rewrite.
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The column that hands Tim Cook the crown for a supply-chain era offers no usage numbers for the AI one, which leaves teams shipping on Apple's platforms to work out how much of their roadmap needs Apple to go first.
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Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM and Gradio all listen on well-known ports, and none of them ask for a credential unless you go and build one, so the one-line change that lets you test from your phone also answers the office subnet.
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Wired's walkthrough puts free Meta and Google models on a laptop with 8 GB of RAM at the low end, which makes the no-upload option real for teams with sensitive files, as long as somebody owns the updates.
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The send-off drew about 200 people and no reported outside industry figures. From 1 September the new chief executive runs the product org while the outgoing one keeps the regulators.
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Parallels Desktop 27 puts a Metal-based driver behind Windows VMs, but the numbers it quotes are scoped to M3 and M4 Macs. The compatibility win is real; the throughput win is conditional.
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Three weeks after closing on Modular, Qualcomm put Mojo under Apache 2.0 and extended support to six vendors' chips. The bet is that the arbitrage layer beats the lock-in.
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