Apple Intelligence and predictive coding in Xcode for intel-based Macs

All of the devices that support some form of Apple Intelligence have

• Apple Silicon chips (A-series or M-series) with Neural Engines
• At least 8 GB of RAM

"Neural Engine" is Apple's name for a specialized hardware co-processor to accelerate some types of computation frequently done in AI applications. It's like a GPU – but for AI, instead of for drawing. Since all of the A-series chips and M-series chips come from the same big family, you can safely assume that a lot of code for Apple Intelligence is shared among platforms (iPhones/iOS, iPads/iPadOS, Macs/macOS).

Even though Intel is now building AI co-processors into some of their microprocessor chips, the older Intel chips in existing Intel-based Macs do not have that feature.

So

• Existing Intel-based Macs might not have the horsepower needed to run Apple Intelligence features smoothly
• Even if they did, it might take a huge amount of effort to port Apple Intelligence to a few Intel-based machines which might not be in line for too many more macOS updates, anyway.

Given that, I don't see it happening.

Apple Intelligence is only available for Silicon Macs. You can let Apple know you would like it on Intel Macs but it's not going to happen.

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I have never known Apple to look back and Intel Macs are now considered as obsolete by their maker.