Apple silicon and Intel cpu apple

I gather that Mathworks is working on an Apple Silicon version of Matlab. My question is: will Mathworks support both Macs with Intel cpus and Apple silicon? A new 16" Macbook pro purchased today has Intel hardware, and will likely still be in use in 3 or 4 years, at which time I imagine that Apple will have only been selling M1 equipped machines for several years. Thus, it is easy to think that Macs running both Intel and Apple hardware will be used for Matlab for awhile to come.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

There will come a point at which the last MacOS release that supports Intel, will fall off of security updates. Apple tends to provide security updates for 3 years.

Mathworks will stop supporting Intel Mac no later than that time. Mathworks will not run their development systems on an OS that does not have security updates.

Apple typically announces EOL (end of life) in summers (late late spring) -- in particular, they typically announce them in conjunction with the WorldWide Developer Conferences that take place in mid June, since they tend to keep secret until then what new models are going to be available.

My speculation is that the MATLAB release for fall of the following year will not support Intel. On the other hand, market pressure could push Mathworks to stay on an extra year or so.