Adam Kos Apple is already selling new MacBook Airs, the main innovation of which is the M3 chip. MacBook Pros still have it, which received it last fall at the rather strange Scary Fast event. But what will happen next?
Of course, the company's portfolio still has a good number of computers waiting for M3 family chips. However, iMac is not among them, which is the only desktop that already has it. But since Apple only has two lines of laptops, nothing will happen with them.
Mac mini
This is a very overlooked computer of the company, but it has clear benefits in that it is actually the most affordable Mac ever. If you are satisfied with the basic peripherals, it really does a lot of work for little money. But Apple updated it to M2 chips already in January of last year, so it is more than a year old with the current generation and is obviously waiting for an upgrade.
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But Bloomberg's Mark Gurman states that the Mac mini should not receive M3 chips until the end of 2024 at the earliest. It is also quite possible that it will end up like the 24" iMac, which received a version with an M1 chip and then an M3 chip. After all, 1 months passed between the upgrade from the M2 Mac mini to the M26 Mac mini, so Apple certainly still has time for it.
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MacStudio
In the case of the Studio, we saw its last update at last year's WWDC23, i.e. in June, when it received the M2 Max and M2 Ultra chips. Apple showed the first generation with M1 chips in March 2022. This generation will not be missed, and Apple is certainly preparing M3 Max and M3 Ultra chips for its Studio. We could wait again at WWDC in early June.
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According to a January report from the analyst firm TrendForce however, the M3 Ultra chip will be made with TSMC's N3E technology, as will the A18 chip, which is expected to debut in the iPhone 16 series in September of this year. It also means it should be Apple's first-ever N3E chip, which is an improved version of TSMC's 3nm process that offers slightly better performance and a higher production yield.
Mac Pro
Together with Mac Studio, Apple also updated the Mac Pro, which did not receive the first generation of Apple Silicon chips, with the M2 series chip during WWDC in June 2023. It is only available with the M2 Ultra variant, when it is obvious that the next generation will bring the best that Apple can do. In simple terms, it should be double the values offered by the M3 Max, so it should contain up to 32 CPU cores and 80 GPU cores. We could wait the same as with Mac Studio at WWDC24.
What about the iMac?
The 24" version of this All-in-one computer already has the M3 chip, but in theory a more powerful build is still in play, just like the larger version. However, as it looks, it is more the wishful thinking of a fan of these universal computers than the real efforts of Apple. The iMac itself has a bit of a cough, which it proved by ignoring the M2 chip in this series. There are only conjectures about the larger diagonal rather than any credible leaks here.
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