Earlier this week, we met the much-awaited Apple M2 chip. It’s 26 occasions extra highly effective than the Intel Core i5 chip. Additionally, that is solely the second technology of Apple’s M-series chips. So the brand new Mac and iPad merchandise have gotten their first main upgrades by way of {hardware} and efficiency. What’s extra attention-grabbing is {that a} new chip from this collection is already within the works. 9to5mac quoted an analyst Jeff Pu of Haitong Intl Tech Analysis, who mentioned that TSMC will start mass manufacturing of the extra highly effective Apple M2 Professional chipset later this yr.
This information reveals two sorts of knowledge. First, the Cupertino-based firm is already engaged on a brand new chip. Second, Apple will proceed to make use of TSMC’s manufacturing course of. And although there is no such thing as a concrete info, we guess the analyst is speaking concerning the 3nm course of node.
Apple M2 Professional With 3nm Is On The Method
[Usually, when talking about the chip specifications, we emphasize the manufacturing process. But we guess many of our readers are unfamiliar with it. In fact, a nanometer represents the distance between its transistors. Logically, the smaller the distance, the better the performance. In this regard, the current Apple M2 chip uses the same 5-nanometer process as the M1. So there is no improvement. But as said, it’s much faster than its predecessor. According to Apple, the new M2 provides an 18% faster CPU performance than the M1; the graphics performance is 35% better due to a new deca-core GPU. Do you imagine what a beast will be the Apple M2 Pro built on a 3nm process?]
By the way in which, a lot earlier, the identical media mentioned that Apple was engaged on a brand new Mac mini. The latter ought to return with the yet-to-be-announced Apple M2 Professional chip. Other than this, a number of experiences mentioned that it’d been growing much more highly effective chips for the long-awaited Apple Silicon Mac Professional. If nothing else, it ought to be the Apple M3. The latter will seem in finish merchandise not ahead of Q3, 2023. Will probably be utilizing TSMC’s 3nm course of as properly.
This time, Apple has additionally been engaged on one other new Mac mini (codenamed J474) that options the M2 Professional chip – a variant with eight efficiency cores and 4 effectivity cores, totaling a 12-core CPU versus the 10-core CPU of the present M1 Professional.
If believing MacWorld, the Apple M3 chips will combine 40-core CPUs. Say, the M1 chip comes with an octa-core CPU, the M1 Professional and M1 Max chips use 10-core CPUs, and the M2 has an octa-core CPU.
Lastly, Pu additionally hinted that there shall be a brand new iPad with a 3-nanometer chip. If that’s the case, Apple’s tablets will see no rivals once more.
