Get the fanciest Ryzen 9 without a lid, Intel appears to be looping back on their naming CPUs and Arc squeaks out more performance (sometimes), CoPilot assists in "hacking" itself, your Twitch…

The M6 might be Apple’s first 2nm chipset thanks to its long-standing partnership with TSMC, but there’s a massive difference between having bragging rights over adopting a newer lithography and how well it’s going to be adopted. For the new Apple Silicon, a new report states that its importance is limited to proving that TSMC’s 2nm node is ready for the mass market. As for increasing the share of this manufacturing process, that’s a job for the A20 Pro. An ongoing DRAM shortage risks the M6 Mac mini’s adoption, thanks to its 50 percent price increase compared to the M4 Mac […]

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Apple have impressed everyone with the performance of their M-series of CPUs after dumping Intel for their own internal design in 2020.  They've pretty much been on a yearly cadence since then,…

Apple launched the Apple Mac Mini M6 and Mac Studio M5 Ultra for those looking to do local AI with Apple's unified memory

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Apple has finally lifted the veil off the M6 and Mac mini refresh, and for those who are particularly excited about how the company’s first 2nm chipset will perform in games, there’s a brief teaser that the technology giant shared on one of its product pages. Apparently, the M6 offers double the gaming performance in Cyberpunk 2077 compared to the M4. What’s also important to note is that while Apple Silicon isn’t notable for running these titles at exceptionally high visual settings, you might be surprised with what you’re about to read. Apple claims that M6 offers double the gaming performance […]

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The rising DRAM costs are what ultimately forced Apple to increase the prices of its Macs, but the positive aspect was that various models were still available to purchase. Unfortunately, the Cupertino giant’s worst nightmare has come to pass because the MacBook Air is reportedly in severe shortage, and while Apple attempts to tackle this problem, it’s focusing on selling as many base 14-inch M5 MacBook Pro units as it can to make sufficient room for the M6 model. Due to the shortage, various M5 MacBook Air configurations won’t be available until September Assuming the MacBook Neo didn’t materialize, the MacBook Air […]

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AMD's Zen 7 architecture might power the last Ryzen family on the AM5 platform, while Zen 8 could be the first on AM6 platforms. AMD Ryzen "Zen 7" CPUs Likely The Last AM5 Desktop Family While Ryzen "Zen 8" Moves to AM6 The AM5 platform, first introduced in 2022, has seen three generations of Ryzen so far. The Ryzen 7000 "Raphael" series was the first, followed by Ryzen 8000G "Hawk Point", and the most recent, Ryzen 9000 "Granite Ridge" series. Next up, AMD will be introducing its Zen 6-based "Olympic Ridge" family, which is going to bring some nice upgrades […]

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The proliferation of AI has certainly caused a long-term crisis in the computing landscape, but if there’s one positive to gain from all of this, it’s that companies are aggressively pushing towards designing chips of superior capabilities to tackle the competition at a fiercer pace. Unsurprisingly, one of those companies is Apple, which reportedly taped out the M7 just six months after the same process was completed for the M6. This would explain why the M6 Pro and M6 Max won’t arrive at all, as they will instead be replaced by the M7 Pro and M7 Max. The M7 will […]

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Apple has reportedly cancelled its upcoming M6 Pro and M6 Max processors, shifting its strategy to leap directly to the next-generation M7 family for higher-end Macs. Apple will now focus on the base M6 chip before jumping straight to the M7 family of chips next year.

The report comes from Mark Gurman (Bloomberg), who notes that Apple is currently testing the base M6 SoC in the base MacBook Pro model, focusing on CPU microarchitecture and NPU improvements for local AI processing. Memory bandwidth is getting an upgrade to around 200GB/s, up from 123GB/s on the current base M5. The integrated GPU also sees a 20% increase in core count, bringing it to 12 GPU cores.

This would mark the first generation in which Apple will skip the Pro and Max variants. Instead, those higher-end tiers will supposedly debut with the M7 series as part of a complete SoC overhaul focused on local AI. The base M7 processor should arrive in H1 2027 with roughly 240GB/s of bandwidth, serving as Apple's first Intel-manufactured design built on the 18A-P node. Expect the M7 Pro and M7 Max to follow in late 2027, followed by an M7 Ultra for the Mac Studio in 2028.

Meanwhile, the report claims Apple is testing an M5 Ultra SoC for an upcoming Mac Studio update. This high-end configuration features about 36 CPU cores, 80 GPU cores, and approximately 768GB of memory, designed for local AI workloads and professional content creation.

KitGuru says: Do you think Apple will skip the higher tiers of the M6 series? 

There has never been a time when Apple hasn’t launched a ‘Pro’ and ‘Max’ version of its base M-series chipset, but according to the latest report, the plan will materialize with the arrival of the M6 later this year. Instead of the M6 Pro and M6 Max, the company will apparently bring forth the M7 Pro and M7 Max. New change of plans threatens the redesigned OLED MacBook Pro launch, which was said to exclusively ship with the M6 Pro and M6 Max SoCs Instead of the M6 Pro and M6 Max, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes that Apple will instead […]

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