Apple Developing iMac Pro With M5 Max Chip

Apple is processing a high-end iMac featuring the M5 Max chip, according to accusation from leaked interior software.


The uncovering comes from leaked kernel debug kit files utilized by Apple engineers. These kernel debug kit files enumerate unreleased Apple hardware by interior identifiers, specified arsenic codenames and level names, and they tin besides see abstracted references that representation level identifiers to spot codenames and selling names. Secondary summaries and screenshots referencing the aforesaid interior codification person besides circulated successful the Chinese tech assemblage implicit the past week, including posts connected Weibo and BiliBili.

The bundle contains references to an ‌iMac‌ with the identifier J833c moving level H17C. H17C is associated with the codename "Sotra C," which relates to the expected selling sanction "M5 Max." This suggests that an ‌iMac‌ with the M5 Max spot is successful progressive testing.

The bundle refers to a fig of devices believed to beryllium utilized exclusively for interior testing, specified arsenic iPad minis moving tvOS and MacBooks with the A15 chip, truthful determination is simply a accidental that the M5 Max ‌iMac‌ is utilized for investigating only. However, since the M5 Max spot is expected to beryllium introduced adjacent twelvemonth and determination person been rumors astir Apple reintroducing a high-end "Pro" ‌iMac‌ for respective years, it whitethorn good beryllium destined for launch. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman believed that Apple was inactive "working connected a larger-screened ‌iMac‌ aimed astatine the nonrecreational market" pursuing the motorboat of the Apple silicon ‌iMac‌, a rumor supported by Apple expert Ming-Chi Kuo.

Beyond the ‌iMac‌ entry, the kernel debug kit lays retired respective further aboriginal Mac configurations. It lists 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro variants with the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, a 14-inch ‌MacBook Pro‌ with the M6 chip, and 14- and 16-inch ‌MacBook Pro‌ models with the M6 Pro and M6 Max chips. There are caller 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air models with the M5 chip, Mac mini models with the M5 and M5 Pro chips, and caller Mac Studio models with the M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips. The leak besides lists a MacBook with the A18 Pro chip, which is wide believed to beryllium an all-new, low-cost model.
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