[hartator]

They fully support i386 via Rosetta 2 though.

The real explanation is Intel has been complacent and lazy. We had 5 generations of the same chip. Enough is enough.

[harpratap]

What about AMD though? They are at par with M1 but use a lot more power while doing so. I don't think it's an Intel problem, it's an x86 problem

[rayiner]

It's not an x86 problem. Apple has been lapping all of its ARM competitors for a while now too.

[silly-silly]

Nobody writes i386 code anymore though, Apple mostly support x86-64 from 10 years ago.

[yagya]

And i386 support was removed in macOS Mojave anyway.

[muterad_murilax]

macOS Catalina, actually.