According to DigiTimes, TSMC will produce Apple's upcoming "M2 Pro" and "M3" chips based on its 3-nanometer process. "Apple has reportedly booked TSMC capacity for its upcoming 3nm M3 and M2 Pro processors," DigiTimes said in a report focusing on the competition between chipmaker

According to DigiTimes, TSMC will produce Apple 's upcoming "M2 Pro" and "M3" chips based on its 3-nanometer process. "Apple has reportedly booked TSMC's production capacity for its upcoming 3nm M3 and M2 Pro processors," DigiTimes said in a report focusing on the battle between chipmakers such as TSMC and Samsung to secure 3nm chip orders. competition report said. As expected, the report states that TSMC will begin mass production of 3nm chips in the second half of 2022.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said in his latest newsletter that he expects the M2 Pro to be used in the 14-inch MacBook Pro, the 16-inch MacBook Pro, and the high-end Mac mini. As for the M3, Gurman expects the chip to be used in the updated 13-inch MacBook Air, the new 15-inch MacBook Air, the new iMac and possibly the 12-inch MacBook. The

M2 Max will also be built on a 3nm process in this case, and the chip will be available in the highest-end MacBook Pro configurations, as well as the Mac Studio if Apple chooses to refresh that computer in the next year or so.

While the M3 is widely expected to use a 3nm process, it's more notable that the same may be true for the M2 Pro, as the standard M2 chips unveiled in the new MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro are still built on TSMC's 5nm process. M1 and M1 Pro chips use the same process, so the use of different processes by M2 and M2 Pro will represent a new round of acceleration for Apple's chips on Mac. Vadim Yuryev, the host of the

YouTube channel Max Tech, has firmly stated in a series of tweets over the past few weeks that he believes the M2 Pro will indeed use the 3nm process. In the past, Yuryev has accurately revealed that the M1 Ultra chip in Mac Studio is actually two M1 Max chips connected into a single chip via a self-designed bus.

If the news about the 3nm process is accurate, the performance difference between the M2 Pro and M2 may be greater than that between the M1 Pro and M1.