At its ‘One More Thing’ event in November, Apple officially announced its first Apple Silicon processor designed specifically for the Mac, dubbed the M1. The M1 chip features an eight-core ...

The M1 SoC is Apple's very own in-house chip built on ARM architecture, and it marks a big departure from Intel chips than ran MacBook Pros and a variety of other Mac laptops for years.

When Apple switched to the ARM-based Apple Silicon architecture with the first M1 Mac computers, virtualization was mostly limited to Windows 11 on ARM and some ARM Linux distributions.