A new report says that Apple is “secretly developing chips for cloud AI computing” set to enter mass production next year, as part of the M5 generation of Apple silicon.
The speculation comes by way of Digitimes, which notes Apple’s upcoming need to build its own data centers in order to meet the needs of Apple Intelligence and the demand placed on its infrastructure by users. While Apple has previously rented Google’s own data centers to train its AI, and used the M2 Ultra chip in its own data centers, Apple “will inevitably need new chips as demand for cloud-based AI computation continues to balloon.”
