Well, if we're geeking out over hereNothing to explain.
Apple was running on x86 Architecture (Intel and AMD), the same as windows. The underlying hardware can run either OS.
Apple Silicone is Apple proprietary CPU architecture and instruction set and glue… it will only run Apple. Of course somebody may build a bare metal emulator for other Operating systems… would be faster than Parallels but slower than native… so why?
Apple Silicon is actually an SoC with Apple designed arm cores based on aarch64 (ARM8.5 specifically) ISA, with lots of private, undocumented extensions and coprocessors.
Also, because it does support the standard aarch64 ISA and comes with unlocked bootloader you can actually get other OSs to run on their hardware. We, my team did so with PongoOS, Marcan did so with Asai Linux and technically if Microsoft would bother to sign it and provide drivers, Windows On ARM could be ported as well.
Emulating it isn't very difficult either, and one could port macOS to other aarch64 computers if they're willing to invest the time required to do so.
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