feep/awesome-apple-silicon

Awesome things Apple Silicon can do. Let’s make it do even more.

Awesome things Apple Silicon can do. Also, things it cannot do with workarounds and progress toward solutions.

Contribution guidelines forthcoming. If you have something to add before then, you know the basic drill. And, thanks.

Articles

• Teardown: Identifying Apple M1’s Distinct Circuit Blocks 2020-12-17

Benchmarks

• How much performance does the M1 lose when it’s low on battery?

Native ARM software (doesn’t require Rosetta)

Listings

• Does it ARM? [github]
• Is Apple silicon ready?

Package managers

• brew News: Homebrew/brew/#7857
• pkgsrc Binary packages: joyent/pkgsrc/#287

Native libraries and projects

• Apple-Silicon-optimized TensorFlow and TensorFlow Addons. [github]

Linux

On the metal

• Marcan is working on a port. He has worked on Linux for the PS3 and the PSF. [github] [twitter] [patreon] [youtube]

Virtualized

• How to run ... Ubuntu for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon

Docker

• A Tech Preview is available. 2020-12-16

Windows

Virtualized

• How to run Windows 10 on ARM ... in QEMU on Apple Silicon

Emulation

• Parallels Desktop for Apple Silicon technical preview available. 2020-12-17
• VMware Fusion. They are working on it. No timeframe announced.