Features of the new Macs
The biggest change that Apple’s new Macs are going to experience is the M3 Chip, a new 3nm chip to be manufactured under pioneering technology developed by TSMC. This size difference doesn’t seem that big compared to today’s chips, but it’s not like that at all, because as you get smaller in size, shorter distance between the transistors and, therefore, the greater the performance and efficiency.
Bloomberg has reported that the configuration than the base of the M3 Pro chip It will feature 12 CPU cores and 18 GPU cores, with a maximum of 36GB of RAM. This means that the new chips will support two more CPU cores and two more GPU cores compared to the reference M2 Pro chip, as well as 4 GB of RAM compared to its previous generation, up to 36 GB. This line will continue with the most top-of-the-range chips. Now if the Apple slogan of the MacBook is fulfilled: power to change everything.
Along with everything described above, it seems that Apple, in addition to improving performance, is going to focus its resources on the efficiency thanks to the new 3nm processor, giving rise to a more powerful computer, but also more efficient and less consumption.
Lastly, the price it looks like it will be the same as the current generation, with no input price changes. This carries good news and bad news. The good news is that prices don’t go up. The bad news is that spending 1,500 euros on a device with a 256 GB SSD and 8 GB RAM in 2024 is serious, very serious on the part of Apple and respect for its users.
Launch in October 2023
According to Bloomberg, the first Apple Macs with the M3 chip will be the 13-inch MacBook Air, 24-inch iMac, and a MacBook Pro M3. The latter, honestly, we do not understand why Apple continues to keep it on the market and the worst thing is that it seems that it will continue for another year.
Now the Apple’s top-of-the-range models They are not going to be presented in October 2023, but were expected in early or mid-2024, as happened about a year ago. Finally, rumors also suggest that the iPad with M3 will also be extended to the iPad Pro at the beginning of 2024 to leave several months of margin between the new Macs and the iPads and prevent “Apple from competing against itself”.
Shortage of supplies, launch delays?
TSMC has informed Apple that it is finding serious manufacturing problems of the 3nm chips and does not know if it will be able to have a sufficient number of processors for the dates that Apple estimates.
Also, TSMC has encountered problems at its Arizona factory in finding skilled labor to intervene in the manufacturing processes of the new processors, and this problem is more serious than expected, because if you do not have manpower, you cannot manufacture, but you cannot find development errors in the absence of engineers. Will we see another delay in the launch of new products?
