It ’s been rumored for some fourth dimension that Apple is working on a HomePod with a screen , as part of its wide push into the smart - rest home blank space . And that launch just got a chip close , with the discovery of a reference to an unreleased product in new beta package .
The Apple news site9to5Macmade the find Tuesday . A equipment kick in the codename “ Z314 ” is referred to in the third beta of tvOS 17.4 beta 3 as being capable of running the operating system . gratuitous to say , no such twist has been free before now . Among current Apple products , tvOS is feed by Apple TV and HomePod , although the latter uses an altered adaptation with no visual port .
Aside from only expose that the product exists , the code suggests that it has attain “ an ripe level of exploitation , ” as 9to5Mac puts it . intragroup and yield versions of the gadget have been build and tested , the site explains . For comparison , the HomePod and HomePod mini had pre - release codenames of B238 and B520 respectively , while the iPads have had codenames beginning with J , K , or P ; there have n’t been any omega - family codenames before , hinting that this could be a completely unexampled class of gadget .
9to5Mac further reveals that the Z314 machine sport an A15 Bionic crisp , which match the 6th - gen iPad mini and has also appear in numerous iPhones . It ’s more powerful than a cow chip that would be expected to seem in a criterion ( i.e. screen - free ) HomePod ; the 2023 HomePod uses an S7 Apple Watch processor .
Last twelvemonth the widely respected analyst Ming - Chi Kuo predicted that a HomePod with a display would launch in thefirst half of 2024 . For all the latest news on this project , keep an eye on our regularly updatedrumor roundup .
