Apple plans to debut a base M6 processor as early as this year for entry-level Macs, but will skip higher-end versions of that chip.
The company will introduce its next Pro and Max chips with more advanced computing and graphics power in 2027 as part of a new M7 generation.
The M7 line is designed primarily around major advancements to on-device AI processing, with the base version slated to support about 240 gigabytes per second of memory bandwidth.