Apple is known for its exciting and surprising announcements whenever it unveils a new technology or an entirely new product such as the iPod or iPad.
Contextually, late last year, and exactly at its annual developer conference, Apple unexpectedly announced that it had already begun designing and manufacturing its own processors for Mac computers.
To clarify, this announcement is important not just for technical experts or Apple products' fans, but for everyone, with no exceptions.
So today we decided to make this video to highlight this matter and to reveal why Apple chose to manufacture its own processors.
For many years, Apple has been importing its Mac processors from Intel. This great relationship between Apple and Intel began in 2006. The first Mac processors from Apple, which are called "Apple M1," appeared for the first time in November last year when the company announced the MacBook Air with M1 and Mac Mini with M1 laptops.
The thing that makes this new Apple processor interesting is that it is based on the ARM architecture, which is completely different from the Intel "X68" architecture.
However, there is no doubt that you are wondering about the differences between them.
Well, technically, ARM uses what experts call "reduced instruction set computing," while Intel's X68 architecture uses what's called "complex institution set computing." To make it easy for all our loyal readers, the Intel X68 architecture is more complex compared to the ARM architecture, so the performance of the ARM architecture, at the mathematical level, is lower than the "X68" architecture, which contains more instructions.
On ARM processors, this lack of processing power should be compensated for by designing highly efficient applications and software, but hey, the ability of Intel processors to perform more mathematical operations doesn't make them more powerful, because it needs a lot of power to do that job, and This explains why its computers always need those noisy fans, which consume energy continuously
Thus, this is the reason why ARM processors are often found in portable devices such as smartphones with small screens and limited battery life.
However, thanks to improvements in both hardware and software, ARM processors also provide a high performance close to Intel's processors, and we have seen this in recent iPhones and iPads, which offer a similar performance to Mac computers with Intel processors.
As a result, Apple is now convinced that it's time to bring ARM processors from mobile devices to PCs, but why did Apple decide to make this move? Well, since the ARM and X68 architectures work in completely different ways, designing an app for one of those architectures means that that app won't work on the other. Therefore, the application you use on the iPad will not work on the Mac unless you use an emulator, but this can cause a decrease in performance and speed.
So now, after Apple has started using ARM processors in both its mobile devices and personal computers, Mac users will be able to enjoy more flexibility while switching tasks between their devices.
And this kind of uncomplicated and user-friendly experience is exactly what makes millions of users around the world admire Apple products.
Moreover, the low power consumption of ARM processors makes Apple computers, with the new Apple M1 processor, last for prolonged periods, in some cases, up to 20 hours.
Furthermore, Apple says that relying on ARM processors such as the Apple M1 processor in personal computers will lead to thin and powerful devices at the same time, since ARM processors don't require additional hardware required by computers with Intel processors, such as cooling fans.
The new "ARM" processors from Apple will also be the reason for personal computers to have the modern neural network units, which are the necessary processing units for technologies such as machine learning technology that will make many tasks, such as photo and video editing, work better. Similarly, tasks that require the same method as the human brain to analyze and process information will work better, for example, recognizing speech within the digital assistant "Siri" or extracting all pictures of cats from your photo library. Regardless of the user experience, other reasons encouraged Apple to abandon Intel processors and adopt ARM processors.

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