Apple Silicon's two-year transition enters year three

November 11, 2022

Today marks the first day of year three in Apple's two-year transition to Apple Silicon.

Back in 2020, when Tim Cook and Co. unveiled the first Macs with M1 chips, the company said it'd switch the entire Mac lineup within two years.

But that time has passed and there's still one big Apple product yet to make the switch: the Mac Pro. And there's been nary a peep about it.

Of course, there's been a lot of supply-chain woes and Covid disruptions these past two years, but missing the self-imposed deadline might have a big knock-on effect when the machine might actually ship.

Hit our top post to see why.

-- Leander Kahney, EIC.

At the launch of Apple silicon in 2020, the Mac-maker committed itself to a two-year transition away from Intel processors. Today marks the first day of year three of that transformation but the Mac Pro still uses Intel chips. Apple missed its deadline.

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"If you want to hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to let them make a lot of decisions -- you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win!" - Steve Jobs, D8 conference, 2010.

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