Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Monday, December 8th, 2025.

I'm your host, Chance Miller.

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Leading off today, last week, Ming Chi Quo reported that Intel was likely to start producing

Apple's M-Series chip for the Mac and the iPad in 2027.

Now, a separate analyst has corroborated that report and added that Intel-made iPhone chips

will also likely come shortly thereafter.

As we've talked about before, Apple currently relies heavily on Taiwan-based company TSM to mass-produce chips for iPhones,

iPads, and Macs. Apple largely designs its chips in-house with its own silicon team,

but then it takes those designs to TSM and the two companies work together to actually make

the chips that go into Apple's products. And based on last week's report, however, Apple is looking to bring Intel on board as a new partner in 2027.

So both Intel and TSM would make M-Series chips for the iPad and the Mac.

And if Apple continues its typical release patterns, the first Intel produced chip could be the M7.

In a previously unreported detail, however, reliable analyst Jeff Poo, says that Apple is also going to work with Intel on iPhone chips.

This would allegedly start sometime in 2008, and it's not explicitly clear which iPhone would get an Intel chip,

but Poo does say that it would be the base model chip, not the pro-level chip,

included in the iPhone Pro and iPhone Max models.

And again, to be clear, Apple would still develop and design its iPhone chips in-house.

The key difference here is that instead of just

TSM manufacturing those chips, Intel would come on board as a partner for Apple as well,

in a bid for diversification of Apple supply chain. Next up today, this is the time of year when

many design details are being finalized for Next Falls flagship iPhones.

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