Apple Silicon roadmap just leaked for next MacBook Air, Mac Pro and more

Apple tree Silicon roadmap just leaked for side by side MacBook Air, Mac Pro and more

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The first generation of Apple Silicon laptops and desktops have impressed reviewers with their powerful performance and low power consumption. Perhaps it's unsurprising, so, that Apple apparently already has a roadmap for the 2nd- and third generation, as outlined by The Data.

Details of the roadmap come via "3 people with direct cognition of the plans", and pigment a picture of a company that's swell to button its reward over Intel.

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The second generation of chips volition apparently be an "upgraded version" of the 5-nanometer M1, M1 Pro and M1 Max fries constitute in the company'due south contempo MacBooks and Macs. While that may sound underwhelming, the upgrade could be substantial for higher finish computers, with some of the new fries doubling the number of dies to 2.

More dies ways more than processor cores, and that's particularly interesting for high-end computers. Before in the twelvemonth, Bloomberg reported that a future Mac Pro could feature Apple Silicon with 40 cores, and increasing the number of dies would certainly help this ambition forth. For reference, the current M1 Pro and M1 Max fries have ten cores, and the currently available Mac Pro tin can be built with a 28-core Intel Xeon Westward processor if money is no object (really: the toll starts at $12,999 for that configuration.)

There will still exist single-die chips, though, and these will apparently be destined for the redesigned MacBook Air 2002 and time to come iPads, the study claims. The second generation is ready to enter a trial production, although not in time for the side by side Mac Pro, which will manifestly characteristic a modified version of the M1 Max with two dies instead of one.

The third generation of Apple Silicon is reportedly going to be a "much bigger jump" with some manufactured to the 3nm procedure and packing up to 4 dies. The report highlights three processors codenamed Ibiza, Lobos and Palma. The first is an entry-level chip for iPads and the MacBook Air, while the latter two are for MacBook Pros and desktop computers. By this point, the A chip used in iPhones will exist manufactured via a 3nm process too, the study says.

A lot can happen to designs and ambitions over the course of a roadmap, of course, but this all sounds very promising. If the 2d and 3rd generation of Apple Silicon impresses as much as the first, it's hard to imagine Apple will take whatsoever cause to render to using Intel chips in its computers for the foreseeable future.

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