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Apple details the end of Intel Mac support and a phaseout for Rosetta 2 | Rosetta app translation features for Intel apps won't stay around indefinitely.


Rosetta app translation features for Intel apps won’t stay around indefinitely.

But after that, Rosetta will be pared back and will only be available to a limited subset of apps—specifically, older games that rely on Intel-specific libraries but are no longer being actively maintained by their developers. Apple took a similar approach to the original Rosetta technology, created to ease the transition from PowerPC chips to Intel CPUs in the mid-2000s. Andrew is a Senior Technology Reporter at Ars Technica, with a focus on consumer tech including computer hardware and in-depth reviews of operating systems like Windows and macOS.

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