# Is there anything users can do to help move Apple Silicon support from Tier 3 to Tier 1?

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**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** mac-m1\
**Created:** [December 8, 2021, 2:04am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-anything-users-can-do-to-help-move-apple-silicon-support-from-tier-3-to-tier-1/72739 "2021-12-08T02:04:31Z")\
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> [@ImreSamu](#):
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> IMHO / As I see:  
> one of the next steps is adding an “AppleSilicon” testing to the [Julia BuildBot/CI/CD](https://build.julialang.org/#/console) ( I can’t see AppleSilicon ; only MacOS64+X86\_64 )

I don’t think that’s really useful before [https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/41440](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/41440) is resolved. That’s the main stumbling block at the moment. _All_ tests jobs are going to segfault because of that, it isn’t incredibily useful to run jobs that systematically crash for a well known issue. The problem is that that’s not trivial to address.

Additionally, most (but not all?) Julia CI runs on on-premise hardware, I’m not sure renting overpriced cloud machines is the best option money-wise. M1 boxes may already be in the availability of the developers, but until someone takes the time to solve [https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/41440](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/41440) there is not much need to use them.

That said, also on-premise CI has a non-zero cost, so supporting the project is a good idea anyway.

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