Current AirPods Lineup

All three current AirPods models — AirPods 5, AirPods Pro 3, and AirPods Max 2 — use the H2 chip, which powers Adaptive Audio, Personalised Spatial Audio, Conversation Awareness, and low-latency Bluetooth processing. AirPods 5 stays on the H2 too: its claimed 1.5x improvement in Active Noise Cancellation comes from a new acoustic architecture and driver, not new silicon. Every AirPods model on the older H1 is now discontinued.

AirPods 5 1 chip H2 (c CPU / c GPU) AirPods Pro 3 1 chip H2 (c CPU / c GPU) AirPods Max 2 1 chip H2 (c CPU / c GPU)

Chip Comparison

Spec H2
Current Devices AirPods 5
AirPods Pro 3
AirPods Max 2
Semiconductor Tech
Release date 2022-09-07