There may be a number of buzz surrounding Apple’s subsequent M3 line of chips. As per rumors, the brand new household will probably be considerably extra highly effective than present M2 silicon. The M3 chips will apparently be based mostly on the Apple A17 Bionic structure, which is ready to debut contained in the iPhone 15 household on September 12. This has sparked some hypothesis that M3 chips and gadgets could be coming sooner quite than later.
看起來到今年年底前,Apple應該都不會發售新款的MacBook (配備M3系列處理器) 機型了
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Plainly Apple won’t launch new MacBook fashions (geared up with M3 collection processors) earlier than the top of this 12 months.— 郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) September 8, 2023
In keeping with business analyst Ming-Chi Kuo that in all probability will not be the case. In keeping with the supply, Apple is now not planning to launch M3 MacBook fashions “earlier than the top of this 12 months”. This assertion, on the floor, does depart some wiggle room to take a position whether or not Cupertino may nonetheless come out with M3-powered desktop Macs in 2023, corresponding to rumored iMac fashions. The concept being that Apple desktop merchandise are a lot decrease quantity than their laptops and will handle to get sufficient chips.
That being mentioned, apparently, TSMC’s 3nm course of, which Apple is utilizing for the manufacturing of its M3 chips, is already unfold very skinny. Yields are apparently a problem, although a latest report prompt that Apple has already bought TSCM’s whole 3nm capability by a minimum of the top of this 12 months.
All of this doubtless signifies that customers should anticipate M3 MacBooks and certain iPads as properly till 2024.