Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line
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Re: Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line
#2The URL above is wrong. At present it is https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articlehttps://www.bloomberg....
I guess it should be https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/apple-to-...
Re: Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line
#3The URL above is wrong. At present it is https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articlehttps://www.bloomberg.... I guess it should be https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/apple-to-...
Thanks for catching that - unfortunately I can't edit the submission URL, but I've emailed hn@ycombinator.com to see if the mods can fix it.
EDIT: gift link if paywalled (archive.is capture is truncated): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/apple-to-...
Re: Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line
#4Seems like a made-up distinction that shouldn't be necessary since M6 has not even released. I suspect this is a marketing ploy to meant to drive up both interest while also increasing prices for the next generation of Mac hardware.
Re: Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line
#5The URL above is wrong. At present it is https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articlehttps://www.bloomberg.... I guess it should be https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/apple-to-...
Thanks for catching that - unfortunately I can't edit the submission URL, but I've emailed hn@ycombinator.com to see if the mods can fix it. EDIT: gift link if paywalled (archive.is capture is truncated): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/apple-to-...
Fixed now. Thanks to you both!
Re: Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line
#6Seems like a made-up distinction that shouldn't be necessary since M6 has not even released. I suspect this is a marketing ploy to meant to drive up both interest while also increasing prices for the next generation of Mac hardware.
> Seems like a made-up distinction that shouldn't be necessary since M6 has not even released.
Why would it? Each generation of the M series has an architectural improvement on their chipsets. The difference between an M1 and an M1 Pro is the allocation and arrangement not the architecture. M6 to M7 presumably will have architectural changes.
Re: Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line
#7The article says base M7 memory bandwidth is targeted at 240GB/s.
M1 had 70 GB/s, M1 Pro: 200, M1 Max 400, M1 Ultra 800.
Modern RTX 6000: ~1,600 or so.
If we get a 1,200-1,500 GB/s bandwidth M7 variant in late 2027 with 512GB of RAM, that will be a very interesting chip. Tracking LLM size and performance improvements, I can imagine that being a sort of inflection point for local inference. I wonder what the power budget would be in desktop format.
Re: Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line
#8Seems like a made-up distinction that shouldn't be necessary since M6 has not even released. I suspect this is a marketing ploy to meant to drive up both interest while also increasing prices for the next generation of Mac hardware.
Why? The specs and benchmarks will show the differences, there’s no marketing around that.
Re: Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line
#9The article says base M7 memory bandwidth is targeted at 240GB/s. M1 had 70 GB/s, M1 Pro: 200, M1 Max 400, M1 Ultra 800. Modern RTX 6000: ~1,600 or so. If we get a 1,200-1,500 GB/s bandwidth M7 variant in late 2027 with 512GB of RAM, that will be a very interesting chip. Tracking LLM size and performance improvements, I can imagine that being a sort of inflection point for local inference. I wonder what the power bud…
Problem is affording the ram…
Re: Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line
#10Bro just give me a new iPhone mini