Apple’s silicon design team is developing new processors to be used in more powerful Macs, smart glasses, and AI servers, reports Bloomberg.
The report says the first round of chips, codenamed “Komodo,” will likely be the M6 chips that will be released after this year’s M5 chips. Chips codenamed “Borneo” will be Apple’s future M7 processors. The team is also working on a more advanced Mac chip, codenamed “Sotra,” that will debut sometime in the future.
Apple is also working on chips to be used in AI servers to process Apple Intelligence requests, they will be the first processors made exclusively for that purpose. High-end Mac chips are currently used for that purpose. Those server chips are part of its “Baltra” project, and the chips are expected to be finished by 2027. Several types of chips are being worked on, including chips with double, quadruple, and eight times the number of CPUs and GPUs as the current M3 Ultra.
The report says Apple is also developing chips to be used in smart glasses that are intended to do battle with Meta’s Ray-Bans, as well as future AirPods and Apple Watch models. That project could bear fruit with new products as soon as 2027.
