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Questions tagged [apple-silicon]

Apple Silicon is a family of ARM-based system on a chip (SoC) for Macintosh computers. This tag relates to software compatibility with that chip rather than other processor families

This tag should be used when the behaviour of macOS using this family of processors could differ from other processor families, currently the main differentiator is with process from Intel x86 family.

Currently the main processor is the M1 with also M1 Pro and M1 Max versions. These all include an integrated GPU.

Wikipedia says

As of late 2021, Apple is switching Mac computers from Intel processors to Apple silicon. This plan was announced at WWDC 2020 on June 22, 2020;[1][2] the first Macs built around the Apple M1 processor were unveiled on November 10, 2020.

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Is M1 chip aarch64 or amd64?

Just as the question says: I'm looking for the canonical word on which architecture M1 is. For when I'm downloading a .dmg to install .... ie, which one means "ARM" ? On the command line: % arch arm64 My "About This Mac" says:
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Does the M1 chip (Apple Silicon) use hyper-threading? (a.k.a. simultaneous multithreading (SMT))

With regard to the Apple M1 chip, I have looked around at various sites but have not seen any mention of the SMT feature more commonly know by Intel’s trademark, Hyper-Threading Technology. I suppose one could presume there is no SMT in the M1, but…
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Does the M1 Chip Support Second Level Address Translation (SLAT)?

I am trying to understand if the new M1 Macs support Second Level Address Translation (SLAT) or if a similar technology is called something different in Apple's interpretation of this specification?
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M1 Silicon Mac shows i386 as architecture even though /bin/zsh is the shell

On my M1 Macbook I have iTerm as the terminal I use and when I enter echo $SHELL I get /bin/zsh. However, arch gives i386. I had migrated the computer from Intel to Silicon and never got the transition correct. What should I do at this point to get…
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M1 Mac: Accessing files from installed iOS apps to read/write

I have an M1 Mac and I'm wondering if it's possible to read and write files that are used by installed iOS applications, specifically the files that the iOS application reads and writes (i.e. not read-only application data or resources). I'd…
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Bypassing Password Prompt for osascript on MacBook M2 with Amphetamine App

I'm using osascript to automate tasks with the Amphetamine app on my MacBook M2. However, every time the script activates, it prompts for my computer password. Is there a way to configure either the script or my system to run the script without…
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Does the M2 chip support Third Level Address Translation (EL3 TTBR0_EL3)?

I am trying to understand if the new M2 Macs support Third Level Address Translation (TTBR0_EL3) which in the ARM world is called Stage 3 Translation in the ARM specification?
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miniforge can't initiate jupyter notebook

I have installed Miniforge on my macbook air m1, and then did the following steps to successfully install jupyter and launch it: chmod +x ~/Downloads/Miniforge3-MacOSX-arm64.sh sh ~/Downloads/Miniforge3-MacOSX-arm64.sh source…
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“TeXmacs” is damaged and can’t be opened

When I download the texmacs dmg (TeXmacs-2.1.1-arm.dmg) to install in the Apple M1 chip Mac Book Pro, shows thiserror: “TeXmacs” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should eject the disk image. Why did this happen? What should I do to fix this…
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MacBook Pro 2020 M1 stuck on progress bar after login was successful

I tried to update to the newest Big Sur 11.5.2 (hat 11.5 already installed). After 3 hours stuck on install screen I tried to reboot and the login panel came up, but when I sign into my admin account, the FileVault progress bar appears for 1 second…
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