At the WWDC Worldwide Developers Conference in June this year, Apple officially launched the new M2 chip, kicking off this series of chips, and updated it to be installed on the 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. Although the most anticipated M2 MacBook Air has not yet been released globally. Officially on sale, but there are already reports that Apple will soon launch other models with M2 series chips, including M2 Mac mini, M2 Pro Mac mini, M2 Pro 14″/16″ MacBook Pro, and M2 Max 14″/16″ MacBook Pro , M2 Ultra Mac Pro, M2 Extreme Mac Pro, and M2 iPad Pro.
Four M2 chips, six M2 series chips for Mac, and one M2 iPad
According to the latest report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to launch four M2 series chips, including M2 Pro, M2 Max, M2 Ultra and M2 Extreme chips. The Mac models equipped with M2 series chips will be launched as follows:
- M2 Mac mini
- M2 Pro Mac mini
- M2 Pro 14″/16″ MacBook Pro
- M2 Max 14″/16″ MacBook Pro
- M2 Ultra Mac Pro
- M2 Extreme Mac Pro
Following Apple’s route of launching M1 series models, The rumored M2 series chips and matching models are all within expectation. Currently, only Mac Pro is left among Mac models. It has not officially switched from Intel chips to Apple's own chips. According to previous rumors, although M1 Ultra is from the M1 series The last chip, the M2 Extreme model, will sit above the Ultra and have 48 CPU cores and up to 128 GPU cores, twice as many as the M1 Ultra. Therefore, if Apple also uses its own M2 chip on the Mac Pro, then Mac products There are no computers with Intel processors in the line.
In addition, DigiTimes stated in the report that Apple has booked 3nm orders with TSMC for M2 Pro and M3 chips. If the report is true, TSMC will begin batch production of 3nm chips in the second half of 2022, and will be installed on The performance difference between the M2 Pro chip, and the M2 using the 5nm process, may be much better than the difference between the M1 Pro and the M1.
In addition to Mac computers, previous news also stated that Apple is developing iPad Pro equipped with M2 chips, with sizes of 11 inches, 12.9 inches, and 14 inches respectively, and will be launched from September to November this year.
M3 chip
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman also pointed out that Apple is already developing a new M3 chip, which is planned to be installed on iMac, 13″/15″ MacBook Air and the rumored 12″ MacBook.
However, Mark Gurman did not provide more products details, so judging from the current content, the iMac update will directly use the M3 chip, but will maintain the 24-inch screen size, or there will be an option for a larger screen size. It is still unclear.
Although the news has stated that Apple. Plans are underway to develop more M2 chips, as well as Mac computers or iPads equipped with M2 series chips, but the current news does not have a clear launch time and details. It can only be said that these news are mainly to stabilize investor confidence.
If the plan. It’s true, which of these new M2 Macs are you most looking forward to?
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