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Apple Working on Chips for New Macs and AI Servers

Apple's chip team is working on new processors for more powerful Macs and future artificial intelligence features that will power Apple Intelligence, reports Bloomberg.

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Chips codenamed "Komodo" will likely be M6 chips that will follow this year's M5 chips, while chips codenamed "Borneo" will be Apple's future M7 processors. Another more advanced Mac chip that will debut in the future is codenamed "Sotra."

Apple is designing chips that will be used for AI servers as well, and they are Apple's first processors made specifically for that purpose. The server chips will process ‌Apple Intelligence‌ requests and will be used in Apple servers, serving the same purpose as the high-end Mac chips that Apple uses for servers now now.

The server chips that Apple is working on are part of its "Baltra" project, and the chips are expected to be finished by 2027. Apple is working on multiple types of chips, including those with double, quadruple, and eight times the number of CPUs and GPUs as the current M3 Ultra.

Apple is also developing specialized chips that will be used in future smart glasses that will rival the Meta Ray-Bans, as well as chips for AirPods and Apple Watch models equipped with cameras. Those products could launch as soon as 2027.

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Top Rated Comments

11 months ago
Wow. No way?
Score: 44 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Channan Avatar
11 months ago
That’s surprising. I thought the M4 was going to be the last one ever.
Score: 32 Votes (Like | Disagree)
11 months ago
"Apple Working on Chips for New Macs and AI Servers"

Well… duh!
Score: 16 Votes (Like | Disagree)
jz0309 Avatar
11 months ago
chip "design" starts ~ 5-6 years ahead of actual release, that's standard in the CPU/GPU world, has been for decades ...
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Edgecrusherr Avatar
11 months ago
I really hope they get back into the server market, not just keep these for themselves.
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
11 months ago
There can definitely be big advantages when you design both the OS and chip hardware. Software designers can find bottlenecks and work with the chip folks to find optimizations. For example adding pipelining hardware to various functions.
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)