Oct 13, 2025AW-0103No outcome yet
What chip will the AirPods Ultra use?
Cult of Mac: New H3 chip expected for AirPods
An H3 chip is coming, debut model unconfirmed
Cult of Mac reported, citing Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, that Apple's silicon team is developing a new H3 chip for lower latency and better audio than the current H2 chip. Which AirPods model gets it first is not yet confirmed.
How to read this record
- What was reportedAn H3 chip is coming, debut model unconfirmed
- Who said it, and whenCult of Mac reported it on Oct 13, 2025.
- What happened, and whenAirPods Ultra has not been announced yet, so nothing has happened that could settle this.
- The verdict, and whyNo outcome yetNothing has happened yet that would prove this right or wrong.No answer yet, so there is nothing to explain.
What do these words mean?
- Right
- It turned out the way this report said.
- Partly right
- Some of this was right and some of it was not.
- Wrong
- It did not turn out this way.
- Moving target
- This was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it.
- Never settled
- The company has announced the product and nobody ever confirmed or denied this.
- Not comparable
- This measured a different thing from the number the company published, so the two cannot be compared.
- No outcome yet
- Nothing has happened yet that would prove this right or wrong.
- Not checked yet
- The company has answered this. We have not finished checking this one.
- Checked
- Checked means the company has since given an answer and we compared it with what was reported. Details still waiting on an answer, details nothing can settle, details where the plan itself changed, and details we have not finished reviewing are all counted separately and are not part of that number.
- Moving target
- A moving target is a report that described the plan accurately at the time, on a product the company then changed. We count these on their own: it would flatter a reporter to call them right, and it would blame a reporter for a decision that was not theirs to call them wrong.
- Reported by
- Cult of Mac
- Published by
- Cult of Mac
- Product
- AirPods Ultra