According to Mark Gurman, Apple has broken the "M chip rhythm": the M6 will be released on schedule this fall, but the M6 Pro/Max won't appear in the customary spring window. The M7, originally planned for the second half of 2027, has been moved up by six months, with MacBook Pro and Mac Studio users getting the M7 as early as the first half of 2027. The M7 is positioned as "AI-oriented", with codenames already revealed: M7 (Delos/H19G), M7 Pro (H19S), M7 Max (H19C); the M7 Ultra (H19D) won't arrive until 2028. This is the compute rhythm of a workstation being pushed forward. The number the engineering community should pay most attention to: Gurman revealed that the M7 base will have 240GB/s memory bandwidth — 20% more than M6 (200GB/s) and 57% more than M5 (153GB/s). This means a 16GB unified-memory run of a 30B dense model will nearly halve first-token latency, which is the key threshold for 7B/13B local inference to say goodbye to stuttering. The Neural Engine upgrade ships with M6; the M7 pushes the "AI bias" to the extreme. On the industry side it's "anti-Moore" compute acceleration: NVIDIA RTX Spark is about to invade the Windows AI PC, and AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm are all piling parameters on the device. When the M7 Pro/Max makes "240GB/s bandwidth + 128GB+ unified memory" the default, running a 70B model locally with Agent long-chain reasoning is no longer a macOS privilege — it's macOS's main battlefield.