Apple says that 10.13 High Sierra is the last macOS major version that will run 32-bit Intel Mac apps "without compromise." If the transition goes anything like iOS, this means we are staring down the ...

There has been some confusion about the status of 32-bit apps in macOS 10.14 Mojave, which will be available soon (for free). I’ve got advice for you on handling the upcoming transition from ...

"What nobody noticed was that the Pixel 7 is also dropping 64-bit app support, so its release yesterday is taking a big step toward Android's 64-bit-only future." Little typo to point out here, I ...

Apple has begun the process of phasing out 32-bit applications on Macs, which is why many users who upgraded to macOS 10.13.4 or later will have come across the following warning message the first ...

Check right now what 32-bits apps you still have, because they won't run at all after you've upgraded to Apple's macOS Catalina in September. No one can say that Apple hasn't given us enough warning ...

One of the advantages of Microsoft Windows is its generally excellent approach to backwards compatibility. Thanks to a mixture of virtual machine support and native OS capabilities, you can generally ...

We’re nearing 32-bit-ageddon with the release of macOS 10.15 Catalina sometime in October 2019. The new version of macOS marks the end of old 32-bit apps whose software code was never refreshed to ...

Windows 10X began as a streamlined operating system for the Surface Neo, a premium mobile device with two screens that opened like a book. Now Microsoft seems poised to use the OS to power laptop ...

Apple was the first company to offer a smartphone powered by a 64-bit processor. Now it looks like it’ll be the first to end support for phones with 32-bit chips. Sort of. Your older iPhones or iPads ...

A year ago, Google gave Android app developers a heads-up about a new 64-bit requirement coming to the Google Play store in August 2019, and now it has outlined more details about its 64-bit ...

Qualcomm‘s brand-new chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, lacks support for 32-bit Arm apps. Despite this limitation, Xiaomi’s 14 series, the first phones to use this chipset, can still run these ...

Although 32-bit MCUs represented only 300 million of the nearly 6 billion total units shipped in 2003, they accounted for $2.4 billion in revenue, as shown in Fig. 1. Although 3.5 billion of the units ...