Apple Silicon CPU is coming. As announced x86_64 application will be able to run on ARM Apple Silicon using Rosetta translation, however there is some exclusion for example Rosetta doesn’t translate Kernel extensions. I checked this Saturday at Costco, they still sell Intel based Mac only.
I opened terminal on demo Macs and executed sysctl to get CPU information and I always got something like this:
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$ sysctl machdep.cpu.brand_string machdep.cpu.brand_string: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7820HQ CPU @ 2.90GHz |
By the way it is possible to get the same CPU data programmaticaly. This is the code:
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#include <stdio.h> #include <sys/sysctl.h> int main(int n, char ** s) { char cpubrandstr[255]; size_t len = 3; int mib[3]; sysctlnametomib("machdep.cpu.brand_string", mib, &len); len = sizeof(cpubrandstr); int iError = sysctl(mib, 3, cpubrandstr, &len, NULL, 0); if(iError == 0) { printf("CPU Brand String: %s\n",cpubrandstr); } else { printf("Cannot get CPU Brand String. Error: %d\n", iError); } return 0; } |
So far I compiled my cpubrand_string.cpp code on x86_64 platform:
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# g++ -mmacosx-version-min=10.11 -o cpubrand_string cpubrand_string.cpp # ./cpubrand_string CPU Brand String: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7820HQ CPU @ 2.90GHz |
And I hope I can execute cpubrand_string on Apple Silicon as well due to Rosetta.