Our Corellium virtualization platform has been providing security researchers with unparalleled insight into how operating systems and programs work on Apple Arm processors. It also made Apple silicon rather distinct from all other 64-bit Arm hardware in terms of both CPU core and peripherals.

This approach was enabled by their in-house hardware design team, and resulted in unique parts with a broad feature set, leading the industry in terms of architectural features. Since then, Apple has been focusing their energy on building faster chips, preferring to improve single-threaded performance over throwing more cores on the chip. But those who have been following the development of Apple phone chipsets closely knew that the evolutionary path Apple followed would result in a powerful 64-bit Arm processor.Īt Corellium, we've been tracking the Apple mobile ecosystem since iPhone 6, released in 2014 with two 64-bit cores.

When Apple released their desktop products with the M1 processor in November 2020, quite a few people in the tech community were surprised by the excellent performance of these systems.

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