Find XO: Apple skips high-performance M6, chip roadmap pivots to on-device AI (bloomberg.com)

- According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is skipping the M6 Pro, Max, and Ultra and heading straight to the M7 line focused on on-device AI. - The trend of running inference on the device is now embedded in the Mac chip roadmap. - Still, it's premature to rely solely on unreleased chips to lock products into the Apple ecosystem. - On-device inference does not eliminate costs but shifts them to device performance differences and development complexity, so it's wise to create boundaries allowing local switching by function.