Month:February 2025

Apple’s chip factory planned for Houston, Texas will manufacture AI servers that are equipped with high-end M5 chips, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said today. Apple is working with Foxconn to open a 250,000 square foot server manufacturing facility in Houston in 2026, with the hardware produced at the location set to be used for AI. …
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After switching to Apple silicon by adopting the M2 Ultra chip in 2022, the Mac Pro is widely expected to receive an upgrade to the as-yet-unannounced M4 Ultra chip this year. Apple last updated the ‌Mac Pro‌ in June 2023, adding an ‌M2‌ Ultra chip and officially completing the transition away from Intel chips. Apple …
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While the iPhone 17 lineup is still around seven months away from launching, rumors about the devices continue to surface. The latest word comes from Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. In his Power On newsletter over the weekend, he said that Apple plans to emphasize the iPhone 17 Pro’s improved video recording capabilities when it unveils the …
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Graphics benchmarks for Apple’s yet-to-be announced MacBook Air models with M4 processors have popped up on Geekbench, giving us an idea of how much faster the GPU component of Apple’s second-generation 3-nanometer chips are compared to the existing M3 models. A Geekbench 6 result listing for a “Mac16,12” was recorded on February 23 whose specs …
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Apple plans to launch a second-generation AirTag in May or June this year, according to a post today from a leaker known as Kosutami. Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman previously reported that a new AirTag would be released in mid-2025. May or June would align with that timeframe. Below, we recap three new features rumored for the …
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Apple plans to eventually integrate the modem component in its devices into the main processor, making the electronics more power-efficient and less costly to produce, according to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. “I’d expect this in 2028 at the earliest,” said the reporter in his Power On newsletter. Funnily enough, that’s the same year that Apple could …
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Former Apple design chief Sir Jony Ive says he still frequently asks himself “What would Steve do?” – despite Jobs specifically requesting that he shouldn’t. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Ive shared that Jobs had directly told him before his death in 2011: “I really don’t want you to be thinking ‘Well, …
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Apple’s next-generation C2 modem is expected to arrive in 2026, debuting in Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro models, according to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. Writing in his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman said that Apple is already testing the so-called C2 modem as well as its successor, the C3, which is expected to arrive in 2027, by …
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Apple has announced plans to invest $500 billion in the United States over the next four years, including a significant expansion of its domestic manufacturing and research capabilities, according to Bloomberg. The commitment comes following a recent meeting between CEO Tim Cook and President Donald Trump. The tech giant’s plans include the construction of a …
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Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, so today would have marked his 70th birthday if he hadn’t passed away in 2011 at the age of 56. In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer Company to market Wozniak’s Apple I, a pioneering personal computer. Their collaboration …
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