MacBook Pro Models With M5 Chips Might Not Launch Until Next Year

In a research note today, Apple proviso concatenation expert Ming-Chi Kuo suggested that MacBook Pro models with M5 chips mightiness not motorboat until 2026.


Kuo discussed however the A20 chips successful iPhone 18 models volition beryllium packaged with WMCM (Wafer-Level Multi-Chip Module) technology, which integrates the alleged "underfill and molding processes" for much businesslike manufacturing and accrued yield, a word that refers to the percent of functional chips that tin beryllium obtained per silicon wafer.

Kuo went connected to accidental that high-end M5 chips successful 2026 MacBooks — likely referring to the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips — will proceed to person abstracted underfill and molding processes during production. His notation of 2026 is the cardinal portion here, arsenic it was antecedently rumored that MacBook Pro models with M5 chips would motorboat in precocious 2025. Last month, however, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported that Apple was "considering" pushing back the merchandise of the adjacent MacBook Pro models with the M5 bid of chips until 2026.

All successful all, Kuo's notation of "2026 MacBooks" with high-end M5 chips is the latest hint that the MacBook Pro mightiness not beryllium updated this twelvemonth aft all.

Timing aside, we urge skipping the MacBook Pro models with the M5 bid of chips if you tin wait, arsenic the consequent models with the M6 bid of chips are expected to diagnostic much important changes, including an OLED display, a thinner design, and perchance a smaller notch. However, those models might not motorboat until aboriginal 2027 now.
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