Enough color talking. What M2 can that M1 cannot?

[Mrbobb]

Last year I recall hearing ppl saying that the M2 will have a module that allows the new OSX to unleash the full potential of the M chips, then only M2 can run Intel VM. What about, all dark rumors?

 

[chabig]

I've never heard rumors that the M series chips will run Intel VMs. As I recall from the introduction, Apple specifically said that only ARM-coded VMs would run.

 

[russell_314]

Last year I recall hearing ppl saying that the M2 will have a module that allows the new OSX to unleash the full potential of the M chips, then only M2 can run Intel VM. What about, all dark rumors?

I've never heard this and Apple has never said anything about it. If it was true Apple would list it in the specs. Maybe this is for M3 or M2 Pro?

 

[jdb8167]

Last year I recall hearing ppl saying that the M2 will have a module that allows the new OSX to unleash the full potential of the M chips, then only M2 can run Intel VM. What about, all dark rumors?

Intel has threatened to sue any company making even an x86-64 software emulator much less a hardware version. There is no chance that an Apple silicon SoC will run an Intel x86-64 VM without a licensing agreement with Intel (and probably AMD too). Rosetta 2 for example is a binary translator that converts x86-64 opcodes into Arm64 opcodes. It doesn’t emulate an x86-64 CPU.