Macs With 'M3' Chips Expected to Use TSMC's 3nm Chip Technology With Test Production Reportedly Underway

[Glideslope]

TSMC=The God of Silicon. No one is even close.

Amazing progress.

 

[Bandaman]

Am I going to be buying new Macs every year like iPhones? Hopefully Apple will introduce an upgrade program.

They do. It's called high resale value.

 

[Tagbert]

Yet we don’t even know that Apple will name these as M2, M3 at all? Just rumors.

We don't even know that they will call them "Macs"! just more rumors

 

[Bandaman]

Yet we don’t even know that Apple will name these as M2, M3 at all? Just rumors.

I'm 99.99% certain they will be M2, M3, and the Pros will be M2 Pro/Max, M3 Pro/Max, etc.

And maybe the Mac Pro will have a new moniker with its 1024-core CPU/GPU and liquid helium cooling system.

 

[Captain Trips]

I'm holding out for the G6 Powerbook.

I heard the Apple Silicon progression will be M1 -> M2 -> M3 -> M4 -> M5 -> G6

That way all those people who have been waiting so long for a G6 in a Mac laptop will finally get it. Just won't be a PowerPC G6.

 

[now i see it]

Every advancement in cpu performance has historically been taken away by more demanding operating systems.
There’s an old adage “What intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away”

 

[aapl owner]

I expect it to be quite a while until we see this in Macs.
Pretty sure we’re going to see a very similar rollout as we have with the M1.
November 2020: M1 introduced in the low-end products.
April 2021: M1 expanded to more mid range products.
October 2021: M1pro and max introduced for higher end products.
First half of 2022: M1 brought to the highest end desktops.
I expect the same to happen with the M2 next year, introduced in the new colorful MacBook first, then a couple months later brought to the mid range, then throughout 2023 brought to the higher end products.
M3 as well, introduced in the lower end products in late 2023, spread to the rest throughout 2024.
So we still have a while

Yep sure sees like Apple will be on a 2 year upgrade cycle for their computer which is about right.

 

[Max Webb]

I haven’t bought an M1 or M1P as they are too expensive for me but I am saving for when M3 does appear as I doubt I will afford M2. I am hoping the next Mac Mini will have a M3. Then I am sold. It will be sooo good.

 

[Bandaman]

I haven’t bought an M1 or M2 as they are too expensive for me but I am saving for when M3 does appear. I am hoping the next Mac Mini will have a M3. Then I am sold. It will be sooo good.

Why wait? https://www.apple.com/shop/product/FGNR3LL/A/refurbished-mac-mini-apple-m1-chip-with-8‑core-cpu-and-8‑core-gpu?fnode=ffa036c5b1140903c8cc05ce996698a7dea0861e1194a81dbfd7ee702c45d236dc82c1d3e319aa5e807a85bc46a35b7adc452b2c58d68ca13b952f95d725e076503d777b9e1918ef2f37c97427b28894

 

[california_kid]

Hey Apple, I got a 0 nm process. I'm holding this chip in my hand below and it's got over a trillion transistors, but it so small you can't see it. Just give 10 million shares and you can have 100% of my production! ok?

 

[mabhatter]

Windows has gone there already, so expect Apple to follow soon.

Technically MacOS was on 11 first.

 

[Max Webb]

Why wait? https://www.apple.com/shop/product/FGNR3LL/A/refurbished-mac-mini-apple-m1-chip-with-8‑core-cpu-and-8‑core-gpu?fnode=ffa036c5b1140903c8cc05ce996698a7dea0861e1194a81dbfd7ee702c45d236dc82c1d3e319aa5e807a85bc46a35b7adc452b2c58d68ca13b952f95d725e076503d777b9e1918ef2f37c97427b28894

I would like something with native support for multiple displays.

 

[mabhatter]

Seems like Apple has kind of backed themselves into a corner with naming and upgrade timelines. Since the M1 Pro/Max were just announced, it is logical to assume that the new MacBook Air and Mac mini updates will be next. So does that mean they will have a standard M2 leaving the 14/16-inch MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro/Max? That is where I think that consumers will be confused because the M2 sounds better than the M1 Pro/Max.

It seems like a nice two-year cycle. The chip generation refresh happens on the low end chip with few cores, then the next year that chip is extended to many cores and higher performance.

So the low end "M2" will be higher per-core performance but only like 4+4 instead of 8+2 cores like the big kids. So it will always be "lower" than the premium Pro/Max lineup.

Apple never refreshed MacBooks on Intel's chip schedule anyway because Intel has been all over the place the last 5 years.

 

[acorntoy]

I'm holding out for the G6 Powerbook.

I hear Half Life 3 comes preinstalled and optimized.

 

[acorntoy]

Why would you buy a new iPhone every year?

Because you can. Your time on this earth is limited, if you like technology why wouldn’t you buy a new phone every year?

 

[CWallace]

I heard the Apple Silicon progression will be M1 -> M2 -> M3 -> M4 -> M5 -> G6

That way all those people who have been waiting so long for a G6 in a Mac laptop will finally get it. Just won't be a PowerPC G6.

Well there never was a shipping PowerBook G5...

 

[name99]

Relax. The website you are surfing is called MacRumors for a reason.

A rumor is throughly uninteresting if it is either
- content free or
- completely obvious.
This one is both.

The issue is not that it's a rumor, it's that it's a waste of everyone's time!
An INTERESTING rumor is something like
"M2 is going to be announced at WWDC. It is based on ARMv9 and will first be in iMac Pro and Mac Pro, moving downward to mac mini and MBA six months later".

See the difference?

 

[Spock]

I heard the Apple Silicon progression will be M1 -> M2 -> M3 -> M4 -> M5 -> G6

That way all those people who have been waiting so long for a G6 in a Mac laptop will finally get it. Just won't be a PowerPC G6.

We were waiting for a G5 in a laptop not a "G6"

 

[CarlJ]

Am I going to be buying new Macs every year like iPhones? Hopefully Apple will introduce an upgrade program.

Do you buy a new car every single year?

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

Are you asking them to think only BEFORE an Apple iCar or after too?

 

[name99]

Do you buy a new car every single year?

Some people do, or the equivalent like Auto Leasing programs...
The world is a big places, with lots of variation in people's choices.

 

[String]

Jeepers, 40 cores.

 

[Greggers135]

Am I going to be buying new Macs every year like iPhones? Hopefully Apple will introduce an upgrade program.

well luckily there is a program just need to be a business. https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/1/22808771/apple-m1-mac-notebook-upgrade-program-small-business

 

[dspdoc]

"Macs With 'M3' Chips Expected to Use TSMC's 3nm Chip Technology With Test Production Reportedly"

This is incredibly relevant information to a rumor site. This is not just a "M3 coming" like you are alluding to. If you don't think that 3nm chip testing is in production or testing at Apple isn't important, and that there is a date that might align with using it? Why are you here

I am here for snarky people like you. It makes my day that people like yourself expend the energy to berate total strangers online. Great existence!

 

[chucker23n1]

I am here for snarky people like you. It makes my day that people like yourself expend the energy to berate total strangers online. Great existence!

"Well, ackshually, we don't even know if this article on this site called Mac Rumors Dot Com is accurate??"