Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman today held a Q&A session focused on the Apple Car, in which he revealed that the vehicle’s chip would have been equivalent to four M2 Ultra chips combined. He also said the vehicle had an underlying “safetyOS” system that was one part of the overall operating system, but he did not elaborate.
Gurman also briefly touched on a few other topics, including that Apple apparently “just started formal development” of a new MacBook Pro with an M4 chip. He did not provide any additional details about the chip, which has yet to be announced by Apple.
Apple announced the M1 chip for Macs in November 2020, followed by the M2 chip in June 2022 and the M3 chip towards the end of October 2023, so there has been around a year-and-a-half gap between each of the chips being introduced. If that pattern continues, the M4 chip would be released in the first half of 2025. However, a late 2024 release is also possible if the interval shrinks to one year.