# Canister SDK on Apple M1 chip machine

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**Created:** [May 1, 2022, 10:06am UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/canister-sdk-on-apple-m1-chip-machine/12599 "2022-05-01T10:06:17Z")\
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👋 Hello,

One of the major blockers for running dfx natively on drawin/arm64 is not dfx itself but rather the local replica that was bundled with it.

With the latest version of dfx 0.27.0 the local replica has been removed (see [Dfx 0.27.0 is promoted](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/dfx-0-27-0-is-promoted/49344)) and dfx now relies on pocket-ic only.

Pocket-ic already supports running natively on arm (see [Releases · dfinity/pocketic · GitHub](https://github.com/dfinity/pocketic/releases)) and we are actively working on making a native release of dfx for darwin/arm64

Stay tuned.

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