Apple works on an Apple Watch with satellite connection and on the M3 chip

Apple could include an important feature related to connectivity in its future Apple Watch, while working on a new processor for those Macs that will arrive next year, as revealed by Mark Gurman in his newsletter weekly. The journalist from Bloomberg expects the Cupertino company to include a satellite connection on your next smartwatches. The processor for the Mac, on the other hand, could be the chip M3and it would arrive, first of all, with a new iMac.

The satellite connection on the Apple Watch would allow make and receive calls or messages in areas where there is no coverage thanks to low-orbiting satellites allegedly provided by Globalstar Inc. Gurman, in particular, believes that Apple has been working with this satellite communications company for some time. He also assures that the latest movements by Globalstar could suggest an upcoming launch of the aforementioned function. In February, Globalstar said it reached an agreement to buy 17 new satellites to help power “continuous satellite services” for an unnamed “potential” customer who had paid hundreds of millions of dollars. in your newsletter.

This is not the first time we have heard about the satellite connection feature on Apple devices. In August 2021, Ming-Chi Kuo, a popular analyst, revealed that the company was working on this feature for the iPhone 13, although it did not ultimately reach these models. Mark Gurman, for his part, confirmed Apple’s intention to offer a satellite connection service to make emergency calls. This would only work in some markets and in a limited way; only when the device does not receive mobile coverage. It is not clear if the next Apple Watch Series 8which would be launched in September of this year, will come with this feature.

Apple is already testing the M3 chip for its future Macs

In parallel, Gurman assures that Apple is already working on the M3 chip, own processor that could arrive at the end of 2023. The Cupertino company, remember, plans to launch the M2 chip in the coming months. This processor will arrive with a higher performance than the M1 chip, but without reaching the power of the M1 Pro, M1 Max or M1 Ultra. The M3 chip, therefore, could improve the performance of the future M2.

The first model to arrive with this processor is expected be a new iMac. “If you’re looking forward to a new iMac, I’m hearing an M3 version of that desktop is already in the works, though I imagine it won’t be released until late next year at the earliest,” he said.