Apple M6 moves to 2nm

Apple’s M6 announcement pushes its in-house silicon roadmap into 2nm territory, with the company touting more CPU and GPU cores plus greater AI compute for future Macs. Apple also revealed an M5 Ultra and refreshed Mac mini and Mac Studio systems, positioning the desktop line around local AI workloads as much as traditional creative performance. The strategic point is not just faster Macs: Apple is trying to keep more inference on-device, preserving its privacy pitch while reducing dependence on cloud AI capacity. A 2nm transition also tightens pressure on Intel, AMD and Qualcomm to match Apple’s performance-per-watt story in premium PCs.

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• Apple’s new M6 chip gets more cores and more AI computeThe Verge