Software for Chemistry and Materials (SCM) are the developers of the Amsterdam Modeling Suite a very highly regarded computational suite used by academic and industrial researchers in all areas of chemistry, materials science, and engineering.
I heard that they now support Apple Silicon and so I contacted them to check and sure enough there is an Apple Silicon download.
![](https://macinchem.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Download-1-1024x669.png)
Once installed the version info confirms this is a build for ARM.
![](https://macinchem.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/versionInfo.png)
I had a quick look at the tutorials and ran through a few examples and I can confirm it all works as expected and it is stunningly fast.
![](https://macinchem.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AMStutorials.png)
I generated a minimised structure of ethanol (it was either that or caffeine).
![](https://macinchem.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Ethanol-1024x767.png)
These tools can be used to address a vast range of scientific questions and it is great to see such a high performance application on Apple Silicon.