Whereas everyone seems to be questioning what’s happening with SIri and what courtroom will rule in opposition to Apple subsequent, precise merchandise are within the works deep inside Apple itself, together with work on the next-gen chips that can be in a number of merchandise coming sooner or later.
In keeping with a report this week by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the brand new chips embrace the M6 and M7 chips that can be used within the Mac lineup. Apple is anticipated to launch the M5 chip within the MacBook Professional this November, so the M6 received’t seem till subsequent 12 months, and the M7 possible in 2027. Gurman additionally mentioned that Apple is engaged on an “superior Mac chip in improvement dubbed Sotra.” No particulars have been offered on any of the upcoming chips.
2026 marks the twentieth anniversary of the MacBook, and Apple reportedly has huge plans for the M6 MacBook Professional, together with a show replace to OLED. Earlier studies have mentioned that the M6 can be a 2nm chip, however that the brand new manufacturing course of may very well be costlier to make use of than the present enhanced 3nm one. Together with an unpredictable tariff state of affairs, it’s potential that the worth of the MacBook Professional may improve subsequent 12 months, or the anniversary mannequin may very well be delayed till 2027.
What’s extra attention-grabbing are the chips Apple is making for some undisclosed future units, which embrace processors for good glasses alongside the traces of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses. The chips for the glasses are reportedly based mostly on the Apple Watch S-series chip, however modified to be extra energy environment friendly and be capable to management the cameras which are put in within the glasses. Gurman says they received’t go into product till the top of 2026 or in 2027, which suggests an precise glasses product received’t seem for a minimum of two years.
The Apple glasses seem like a separate product line from the present Imaginative and prescient Professional. Gurman states that the concept is AR-focused, superimposing notifications and different useful info into view, however he additionally cautions that “AR stays years away from being sensible.” It’s potential that if Apple’s glasses aren’t AR-enabled, they are going to be just like the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, which file video, take photographs, play audio, and help voice features.
Different new chips for Apple wearables embrace a chip codenamed Nevis for an Apple Watch with a digicam, and a chip codenamed Glennie for camera-equipped AirPods. These merchandise are scheduled for 2027.
Previous studies have indicated that Apple is making servers particularly for the dealing with of AI processing, and Gurman studies that this venture may very well be prepared in 2027. The AI server chips may “have double, quadruple, or eight occasions the variety of major processing and graphics cores as immediately’s M3 Extremely.” Many Apple Intelligence options make the most of on-device processing, however for Apple to take additional steps into implementing extra complicated AI options, it has to depend on cloud processing. Gurman states that these new servers would assist Apple “catch up” to different AI companies from Nvidia and Google.
Different chips in improvement embrace follow-ups to the C1 modem that debuted within the iPhone 16e, together with the C2 for the high-end iPhones in 2026, and a “higher-end” C3 for 2027. Apple additionally continues to work on a sensor and chip system for monitoring blood glucose ranges on the Apple Watch.
