Well, that was fast. The M3 chip, introduced last October, is already yesterday’s news. We’re living in an M4 world, courtesy of the surprising announcement that the new iPad Pro is powered by Apple’s next generation of chips.
Even if you don’t care about iPads, this announcement will affect the trajectory of the Mac and iPhone in quite a few ways.
The first question to answer is: Why so soon? The iPhone gets a new chip generation once a year when the new iPhones arrive. Apple likely wants the M series on a similar cadence, since the two chips are really variations of
