Doug Brooks, Apple's senior product manager for Apple chips, stated in an interview on the eve of WWDC 2026 that the Mac mini and Mac Studio have become the preferred devices for developers and teams running AI agents, thanks to the advantages of their in-house chips. He emphasized that Apple's chip design has always been centered around the needs of its own systems, achieving coordinated computing power between the CPU, GPU, and neural engine through a unified memory architecture, ensuring efficiency and privacy security for on-device AI operations. Taking the M5 Max chip as an example, its unified memory bandwidth reaches up to 614GB/s, far surpassing industry competitors, providing ample computing power support for local AI inference. Brooks pointed out that Apple's strategy of in-house chip development is highly aligned with the trend of local AI computing. Through deep integration of hardware and software, AI queries are processed directly on the device, protecting user privacy while reducing reliance on cloud services. This strategy directly challenges the dominance of companies like Nvidia in the cloud AI sector, driving the industry toward a decentralized AI direction.