When Apple announced the transition of Macs powered by Intel processors to its own Apple Silicon in 2020, the company said it would complete the transition of the entire lineup in two years. However, that timeline has passed, and Apple still has one Intel Mac available in its lineup: the Mac Pro. Did Apple overestimate its ability to build a Mac Pro with an Apple Silicon chip?
A phased transition
Changing the processors of an entire lineup of computers is certainly not an easy task. However, Apple has plenty of experience in this regard. Apple’s first computers ran on Motorola processors, but the company decided to migrate to the new PowerPC platform in 1994.
While this brought benefits at the time, the PowerPC processors weren’t delivering what Apple expected. In 2005, the company confirmed the transition from PowerPC to Intel. At the time, Apple said that the transition would be complete by the end of 2007. However, the transition was fully completed in August 2006, when PowerMac was replaced by the first Intel Mac Pro.
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