Stata for Mac with Apple Silicon

Replace (14 January 2021): Stata’s Apple Silicon assist has been absolutely examined on M1 Macs and is now not in beta.

Replace (23 November 2020): We acknowledged earlier that nonuniversal variations of
Stata/MP wouldn’t run on Macs with Apple Silicon. This was primarily based on our expertise with trying to run a nonuniversal model of Stata/MP on an Apple builders package that contained an A14 SOC (system on chip) as an alternative of an M1 SOC. Nonetheless, we have now since obtained a manufacturing Mac Mini with an M1 SOC and have discovered that nonuniversal variations of Stata/MP will the truth is run on Macs with Apple Silicon.

Apple has introduced the primary set of Macs which might be transitioning to Apple Silicon. Apple claims that Macs with Apple Silicon promise higher efficiency and longer battery life than the earlier generations of Macs. This might be of nice curiosity to our Stata-for-Mac customers, a lot of whom use Mac laptops.

For the previous few months, StataCorp has been engaged on porting Stata to Apple Silicon utilizing a Developer Transition Equipment supplied by Apple. We’re happy to announce that Stata 16 has been up to date to run natively on Apple Silicon and might be out there as a free replace. We want to correctly take a look at Stata on an actual Mac with Apple Silicon earlier than making it formally out there. Nonetheless, we perceive that a lot of our customers might be wanting to strive it, which is why we’re placing out Apple Silicon assist as an early beta. This beta might be out there without spending a dime to all Stata 16 customers instantly. Current Stata 16 customers can merely replace inside Stata, and Stata will set up a Common utility that may run on Macs with Apple Silicon in addition to Macs with Intel processors. After right this moment, the Stata-for-Mac installer will even embrace the Apple Silicon replace. Despite the fact that Apple Silicon assist is in beta, we nonetheless licensed it in opposition to our in depth suite of assessments in statistics, graphics, and knowledge administration.

Stata 15 and earlier releases of Stata for Mac will run on Macs with Apple Silicon, however they’ll run a lot slower beneath emulation translation than if run natively. We suggest that you simply improve to Stata 16 if you happen to want to run Stata on a Mac with Apple Silicon.

[1] Stata/MP is not going to run on Macs with Apple Silicon even beneath emulation until you’ve gotten the model that features Apple Silicon assist. Stata 16 customers which have an earlier model of Stata/MP must manually obtain and set up Stata/MP. Stata 15 or earlier customers must both improve to Stata 16 or use Stata/SE.