The M6 arrives alone, the M7 arrives early, and a dead car project explains why.For the first time since 2020, an Apple chip generation looks set to arrive as a base chip alone, its Pro, Max and Ultra tiers skipped. Bloomberg's reporting says Apple is racing to an AI-first M7 instead, backed by a confirmed $30 billion Broadcom deal and a server chip called Baltra. The groundwork was laid by Project Titan, the car Apple spent a decade and more than $10 billion building before it walked away.Apple has done something it sidestepped for five straight generations of its own silicon. It broke its release pattern on purpose. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the company will ship a base M6 chip later in 2026, then skip the M6 Pro, Max and Ultra outright and jump to an M7 family built around artificial intelligence.About The AuthorAt heart, I am a storyteller drawn to the watershed moments that bend the technology landscape. I braid narrative with data, humanise statistics, and trace the arc from first spark to world-changing impact. My reportage, features and reviews are witty, sardonic, visual and vivid, using anecdote to illuminate rather than eviscerate.
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