https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/21/apple_set_to_revive_forgotten_air_and_mini_report/

If Apple hoped that the MacBook Air and Mac mini would die a natural death, it's had to think again.

After touting the mini's versatility – as a department server, or home media player – the headless desktop computer has languished since its last update in 2014, running the Haswell chips that Intel revealed in 2013.