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TLDR…

OG HomePods have the A8 chip first released in the iPhone 6 in 2014.

Do we know if OG HomePods will get ios16?

It will get it. The current dev beta can be installed on them. Make sense because the Apple TV HD will get it too and that also has an A8 chip.
 
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