The Apple roadmap is becoming clearer: according to information from Mark Gurman,Two major new productsare to be expected from the computers of the apple brand. One will arrive fairly quickly this year while you have to wait a little longer; a few months; To see the second materialize.
A new MacBook Air under steroid
The spring of 2025 will ring the time for renewalpourwith MacBoo on: The new generation is finally preparing to welcome the M4 chip in its bowels. He will therefore follow the same youthful cure asThe Mac Mini, the iMacetle MacBook Pro.
Its launch is imminent, since this new model should be available "at the latest in March», In Gurman's terms. Which would rather be logical from a chronological point of view, the launch of the previous model having taken placeat the same period last year.
The traces of this evolution are already present: MacOS Sequoia 15.2 revealed the existence of "Mac16,12» et «Mac16,13», Digital signatures of future MacBook Air 13 and 15 inches. A launch that initially seemed to be planned to open the 2025 material ads ball, before being preceded byThe iPhone SE 4that will come outFebruary 19.Current M3 stocks reductionConfirms the imminence of this transition, a now classic strategy of Apple to prepare the field for its new features.
The future MacBook Pro M5: The chip that will change everything?
The future M5 will be deployed differently than the M4. The MacBook Pro will be the first tobenefit from this new architectureIn the fall of 2025, followed by the iPad Pro in the first half of 2026. In the meantime, Apple provides an intermediate update of the Mac Studio and the Mac Pro in M4, probably during WWDC 2025.
Like the M4 in its time, the M5 will be the front door of a new technological era for Apple. It will be engraved in 3 nanometers; by TSMC of course; And not in 2 nanometers: Apple having deliberately dismissed the process for cost reasons. However, the M5 will nonetheless remain a racing beast. The main novelty?Integration of the System on Integrated Chip (TIIC).
A vertical stacking technology of components, making it possible to improve performance and energy efficiency while reducing its size. It is here that TSMC brings its expertise in composite molding in thermoplastic carbon fiber. Concretely, it is a manufacturing process that combines two or more materials with distinct physical and chemical properties to producea new material with improved properties.
A design which, coupled to the TIIC, will allow better thermal management and a drastic reduction in electric leaks whichtraditionally handicap 2D architectures.
The M5 chip is also designed asA bridge between two worlds: that of the general public devices and that of the cloud infrastructure. This duality of use will serve as well the MacBook Pro/iPad Pro as the servers dedicated to Apple's artificial intelligence.
Only a few weeks to wait therefore, in theory, to see the MacBook Airpass in the (very) large courtyardand a few more months toSee the M5 emerge. Strongly the first benchmarks, in order to check if Apple will have managed to make its homemade chip enough. Other information about the M5 will necessarily come before these, which will already allow usto give us a little idea of the answer.
- Apple is preparing a new MacBook Air equipped with the M4 chip for spring 2025, with an expected launch by March.
- The M5 chip will appear on the MacBook Pro in the fall of 2025, followed by the iPad Pro in 2026.
- Thanks to advanced architecture and better energy management, the M5 will serve as well the consumer devices as the Apple cloud infrastructures.
