As Apple prepares to launch its subsequent M2 Macs, the corporate is already ramping up testing of M3 chips, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says in his newest “Energy On” e-newsletter.
From his report: The corporate has begun placing next-generation Macs with the M3 chips via their paces, testing them with third-party apps to make sure compatibility with its software program ecosystem. It’s not the primary time that we’ve gotten an early glimpse at new chips via this course of.
….So what does the M3 appear to be? Nicely, a minimum of one model in testing has 12 CPU cores, 18 graphics cores and 36 gigabytes of reminiscence. That’s in accordance with information collected by an App Retailer developer and shared with Energy On. The CPU, the chip’s principal processor, is made up of six high-performance cores that deal with probably the most intensive duties and 6 effectivity cores that kick in for operations that want much less energy.
The chip itself on this explicit check is working in a future high-end MacBook Professional with the upcoming macOS 14.0 and certain is the base-level model of what would be the M3 Professional coming subsequent 12 months.
The subsequent Mac anticipated to be launched is a 15-inch MacBook Air, which we’re more likely to see unveiled at subsequent month’s Worldwide Developer Convention. Nevertheless, it can probably pack an M2 processor. Gurman says Apple is engaged on M3-based iMacs, high-end and low-end MacBook Professionals, and nonetheless different iterations of the MacBook Air.
I’m hoping we’ll se an M3-equipped, 24-inch iMac by the autumn. The all-in-one is overdue for an replace.
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