The first term Apple coined to market their new devices was “Apple silicon”, by which they mean to refer to the CPU chip being based on a chip design created by ARM. These new devices started shipping in late 2020 and are differentiated from Intel Macs by several designators. In this post, we explain what all the hot terms being thrown around in this space mean – from ‘Rosetta2’ and ‘Apple Silicon’ to ‘arm64 architecture’ and ‘Universal 2’ binaries – and explain why running security software natively on Apple silicon has clear performance and security benefits.Ī New Architecture and…Names, Lots of NamesĪpple made big news last year with the announcement that they would be building their own CPUs for Mac devices instead of relying on Intel for their processors. With native support, the Sentinel agent is freed from having to run under Apple’s translation software layer, known as Rosetta 2, unlike other macOS EDR/XDR security solutions. Last week, SentinelOne announced the early availability of its v5.0 agent, becoming the first endpoint security agent to natively support Apple’s new M1 ( aka Apple silicon, aka arm64 Mac) architecture.
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