Welcome to the TechBrew Right Home for Wednesday, October 15th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. The new Apple M5 chips are here, and I'll tell you what devices got them and what they can do. ChatGPT wants to allow you to have sexy time. Waymo is coming to London. Netflix wants to bring podcasts to your streaming diet,

and it's officially the end of the road for Windows 10. Here's what you miss today in the world

of tech.

Apple this morning updated pieces of its hardware lineup. These are mostly spec bumps, but they're impressive

bumps because this marks the arrival of the M5 chip. For example, Apple unveiled a 14-inch

MacBook Pro with an M5 chip, which Apple says offers up to 3.5x more performance for AI workflows.

It also gets faster storage for the same $1,59 starting price

shipping October 22nd. The iPad Pro got an M5 chip as well, also the new C1X cellular modem,

and an N1 chip for the starting price of $999 for the 11-inch and 1299 for the 13-inch model,

shipping also October 22nd.

The Vision Pro got an M5 chip 2, which Apple says allows it to render 10% more pixels.

There's also a new reportedly more comfortable dual-knit band to keep on your noggin.

I will also note that Apple will begin selling Vision Pro compatible PlayStation VR2-Centz

controllers for $250 on November 11th and a $130-dollar Logitech Muse Digital Pen on October 22nd.

So, you know, more kit for the like two or three of you out there who

have one of these. But obviously, the big news here is that new M5 chip. So what do it do?

Quoting the Verge, talking about the MacBook Pro. Apple claims the M5 chip is 3.5 times faster at

AI tasks than the M4 chip, thanks to a next-gen 10-core GPU with a

neural accelerator in each core. The new GPU also means 1.6x faster graphics performance

and up to 1.6x higher frame rates in games over the M4 MacBook Pro.

Multi-threaded performance is also increased by 20%.

And the M5 chip in the 14-inch Pro also has higher memory bandwidth of 153 GbPS.

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