Apple's M5 chip debuts later this year in MacBook Pro and iPad Pro models, delivering enhanced performance, efficiency, and AI capabilities.

Apple regularly refreshes the MacBook Pro models, and a new version that uses M5 series chips is in the works. Apple just finished refreshing most

The next MacBook Pro release should bring M5 power to Apple's flagship later in 2025. Here's what's been rumored, and what's going to take longer to arrive.

Three things are certain in life: death, taxes and Apple launching new silicon at the end of the year. And according to Mark Gurman, M5 is on track to hit the iPad Pro and MacBook Pro in the fall.

Last year, Apple broke an 18-month dry spell — 2023 was the first year in iPad history that zero new models debuted — with the release of the M4 iPad Pro, shocking nearly everyone by debuting its newest Apple silicon on an iPad, six months before it would come to the Mac.

In his latest Power On newsletter, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said that Apple is in the process of carrying out "advanced testing" on the new iPad Pro

Alongside the iPad Pro, Apple is also planning to release new MacBook Pro models with the M5 chip later in 2025. The upcoming MacBook Pro will get an OLED display, offering higher brightness, better contrast, and richer colors.

According to Gurman, Apple is aiming to release updated M6-powered iPad Pro models at some point in 2027. However the chip itself will likely be released earlier, at some point in 2026, as part of an overhauled MacBook Pro.

According to Mark Gurman in the Power On newsletter this weekend, we may see at least two devices with Apple’s upcoming M5 chip before the end of the year. Gurman reports that the M5 iPad Pro has reached the late stages of testing,