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Apple has begun the core design of the M3 chip: Report
The core design of Apple’s new M3 SoC has been launched and will be released in the second half of 2023 at the earliest, according to Taiwan’s “Business Times”. Apple’s M3 chip, internally code-named “Malma”, will be mass-produced on TSMC’s N3E architecture.
The N3E is said to be an improved variant of the N3 process, also 3nm. Compared to N5, N3 can provide up to 15% performance improvement and up to 30% energy efficiency improvement, and N3E will further expand these differences.
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The reports state that under optimistic conditions, the M3 chip may be launched in the second half of 2023 or the first quarter of 2024. Next year we’ll see Apple’s first 3nm chips, and as mass production begins, Apple will also import them into the A17 Bionic chip used in the iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max.
The M3 can be used in products like the MacBook Air, and it’s possible that Apple could increase the display size on this model to improve cooling with a stronger cooling solution. Other potential products include an updated iPad Pro line, as well as an updated iMac, and possibly an iPad Air in the future. Like M2, M1, and M3 will again use 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores.
According to supply chain news, after September, Apple began to use TSMC’s 3nm (N3) M2X chip, code-named Rhodes, to mass-produce and develop the M2X chip, which will be divided into two processors, M2 Pro and M2 Max, according to the core. Pro and Mac Studio.
Apple began to reposition the iPhone 14 product line and target market this year. The iPhone 14 continues to use the A15 application processor, and the iPhone 14 Pro series is equipped with the new A16 application processor using TSMC’s 5nm (N4).
The new-generation A17 application processor code-named Coll is about to complete the design and finalization. It is expected to be mass-produced by TSMC 3nm (N3) between the second and third quarters of next year. It is expected to be equipped with the iPhone 15 launched in the second half of next year. Pro series phones, and later iPhone 16 series phones.