Apple skips the high-end M6 entirely, betting the Mac on an AI-tuned M7 (bloomberg.com)
Apple plans a base M6 for entry Macs this year but is dropping the Pro, Max, and Ultra tiers of that generation — a first — to launch M7 Pro, Max, and Ultra instead, per Gurman. The high-end variants land as late as 2027 and 2028.
The catch an investor flagged: the base M7 targets 240GB/s of memory bandwidth. An Nvidia RTX 6000 already does roughly 1,600. The whole 'AI Mac' pitch rides on whether a future Ultra closes that gap for local inference.
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