Didn't the M1 come out in november 2020 and the M1 Pro in October 2021? That would be closer to a year than 6 months. I actually would not be suprised if it took even a little longer and if they went with a more advanced node on TSMC to get both, architecture improvements and miniaturization improvements.

Please either support made-up arguments like this, with sources, or even better, don't post them to begin with. Don't waste our time.

Absolutely nobody wants to hear that you have magical oracular powers that enable you to tell us what the secret evil motives are behind Apple's CPU development iteration schedule and product release schedule.

Probably not for the Macbook Pros. The current ones are already backordered multiple months, not much incentive to release new ones this year.

Its not really so clear though, that the next fab rev would come through on time. They often don’t and these product plans are developed years in advance.