Apple’s rumored combo Bluetooth and Wi-Fi chip might be introduced with some of the company’s home products in 2025, including a new HomePod Mini and Apple TV, reports Mark Gurman for Bloomberg.

Apple could reportedly refresh the Apple TV and HomePod mini with a custom Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip in 2025. This is what it could bring!

The HomePod mini was launched in November 2020 and other than a few new color options, hasn't been refreshed since. That's not necessarily a bad thing: in our HomePod mini review

A new Apple TV and HomePod mini are coming in 2025. According to a report, Apple is making a big change on both of these devices.

Apple last updated the HomePod in early 2023 with a surprise second-generation model that didn’t change much other than a getting new chip and losing a couple of microphones. Most notably it isn’t capable of running Apple Intelligence, which we’d expect to be rectified in the next release.

The Bloomberg report centres on Apple's new Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip, which is expected to appear in the iPhone 17 in September 2025. It'll also likely be used in the iPad and Mac the following year. The chip, codenamed Proxima, is separate from Apple's proprietary 5G modem and is expected to support Wi-Fi of at least Wi-Fi 6E.

Apple's plans for 2025 are already beginning to take shape, and purportedly on the horizon is a long-overdue refresh to its smart home lineup. The iPhone maker plans to introduce a new Apple TV and HomePod Mini that are "scheduled for next year,

According to a recent report by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the Cupertino-based tech giant is planning to refresh both the Apple TV and the HomePod Mini in 2025 as part of a major effort to refresh its smart home product lineup.