Intel Support on macOS

Apple has announced that they will be ending support for Intel-based Macs when macOS 27 is released in late 2026.

Carbide Create and Carbide Motion are both built for Intel-based Macs, and they use Rosetta to run on Apple Silicon (the M-series of chips). Rosetta is a translation layer that allows software built for Intel chips to run on Apple Silicon, so we're able to build only one version of our software for macOS and have it work on both Intel and Apple Silicon machines.

As of right now, Apple has announced that macOS 27 will be the last version of macOS to include Rosetta, so when that version of macOS is released (presumably in 2027), macOS will no longer have the ability to run software built for Intel-based Macs.

You can read more from Apple here.

Since Apple will no longer put any effort into support for the older Intel-based Macs, we'll probably need to follow suit.

Beginning in late 2026, we'll start looking into shifting our macOS builds to Apple Silicon instead of Intel. That means that users of Intel Macs will be able to run the builds we've already released at that point, but the new builds will not be compatible with their Intel Macs.

What does this mean for Windows user?

Nothing at all. This change only affects macOS users, and we'll continue the same support for Windows machines that we have now.