It’s official: Apple is working on the new chip M3the direct successor of the current M2, which could be launched on the market already in second half of 2023. To reveal it is a report leaked on the Net, which provides many interesting details on the new product of the Cupertino company. So let’s find out what it is.
Apple M3: the new chip ready to arrive between 2023 and 2024
New information published in the Taiwan Commercial Times claims that the new Apple M3 will sport the codenamed Malma. And which will be mass-produced on theTSMC’s N3E architecture, an improved variant of the N3 process, also known as 3nm. And considering that the N3 provides a performance increase of up to 15% and an improvement in power reduction of up to 30% over the N5, it is quite evident that the N3E will only be able to improve this performance even further.
According to the report, then, the M3 chip could arrive on the market in the second half of 2023 or in the first quarter of 2024. However, it must be considered that 2023 could be too optimistic a hypothesis for Apple’s production, the which would make the experts propose for 2024. In any case, one thing is certain: next year we could have some more news on the new chip of the Cupertino company. Indeed, it would appear that in its production Apple will use the same technology to manufacture l’A17 Bionicwhich is said to be used exclusively for iPhone 15 Pro e Pro Max.
As for the Apple M3, it would appear that this will be integrated into the new models of MacBook Airwith the possibility that the company you also increase the size of the display, resulting in improved thermals thanks to an improved cooling solution. As for other potential products, the new silicon could be in the series iPad Pro updated, iniMac and maybe even in a iPad Air future. On the new devices, therefore, Apple could guarantee a chip with four high-performance and four energy-efficient cores. In any case, we will carefully follow the updates of the company to get more and more precise news about it.