Look for Apple to release a MacBook Air with a M5 chip next spring

Apple will roll out MacBook Air models packing the new M5 chip in spring 2026, according to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. 

He says that Apple is also working on MacBook Pros with M5 Pro and M5 Max processors that should arrive around the same time.

This week Apple introduced a 14-inch MacBook Pro and an iPad Pro with M5 processors. According to Apple, the M5 chip “delivers the next big leap in AI performance and advances to nearly every aspect of the chip.”

Built using third-generation 3-nanometer technology, M5 introduces a next-generation 10-core GPU architecture with a Neural Accelerator in each core, enabling GPU-based AI workloads to run dramatically faster, with over 4x the peak GPU compute performance compared to M4, according to Johny Srouji, Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware Technologies. The GPU also offers enhanced graphics capabilities and third-generation ray tracing that combined deliver a graphics performance that is up to 45% higher than M4, he adds.

Ternus says the M5 features the world’s fastest performance core, with up to a 10-core CPU made up of six efficiency cores and up to four performance cores. Together, per Apple, they deliver up to 15% faster multithreaded performance over M4. M5 also features an improved 16-core Neural Engine, a powerful media engine, and a nearly 30% increase in unified memory bandwidth to 153GB/s.

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