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Apple is testing M3 Max chip, most powerful MacBook Pro ever expected next year

Apple is testing M3 Max chip, most powerful MacBook Pro ever expected next year

August 10 , 2023 0

Apple's high-end MacBook Pro laptop, internally codenamed J514, is expected to hit the market next year. Test logs from a third-party Mac app developer show that the computer comes with a new M3 Max chip with 16 CPU cores and 40 GPU cores.

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August 8, 2011 - Apple has recently begun work on testing the M3 Max chip used in a new generation of high-end laptops in preparation for the release of the most powerful MacBook Pro ever next year.

Apple's high-end MacBook Pro laptop, internally codenamed J514, is expected to hit the market next year. Test logs from a third-party Mac app developer show that the new M3 Max chip powered by this computer has 16 CPU cores and 40 GPU cores.

Of the 16 CPU cores on the M3 Max chip, 12 high-performance cores are used for performance-demanding tasks such as video editing, and four high-efficiency cores are used for general applications such as web browsing. Compared to the current M2 series chips in

Apple laptops, the M3 Max chip not only has four more high-performance CPU cores, but also has at least two more GPU cores. In addition to the higher-performance M3 Max chips, the MacBook Pro being tested also packs 48GB of RAM.

Apple may be testing different versions of the M3 chip with various numbers of cores, and the M3 Max chip is just one of them. An Apple representative declined to comment.

The J514 laptop represents the latest advancement in Apple's internal chip development and may help entice consumers to re-embrace Mac products. Apple expects sales of both Mac computers to decline by double digits in the third quarter, and the company is counting on improved product performance to entice users to upgrade again.

The M3 series of chips is supposed to be the main selling point of Apple's Mac lineup upgrades, and the M3 series of chips will be the biggest upgrade in terms of self-developed chips since the debut of the "Apple Silicon" in 2020, when Apple first replaced Intel chips with its own chips for the launch of its Mac computers. Since the introduction of the M1 series chips, Apple has released different versions of MacBook Air and other laptops and Mac Pro and other high-performance desktops. As of June of this year, Apple's entire line of Mac computers has been replaced with self-developed chips.

The M3 series chips are also the first time that Apple has shifted the production process of Mac chips to 3 nanometers, which is expected to bring longer battery life and strong performance improvements to laptops. Apple's iPhone 15 Pro, which will be released in September this year, is said to feature an A17 chip that uses a similar process.

When Apple tests upcoming devices and chips, it's all about making sure they're compatible with the Apple services ecosystem as well as various apps. Test logs from third-party Mac app developers can show which new chips Apple is working on, having revealed

accurate information about the details of the latest Mac chips over the past two years. This is true for Apple's first high-end Mac chips, the M1 Pro and M1 Max, which hit the market in 2021, as well as the specifications of Apple's past few laptops and desktop computers.

Right now, Apple is grappling with a general slowdown in demand for personal computers, and the company is still in a gap between upgrading its Mac computers. While Apple recently released upgraded models of its 15-inch MacBook Air, Mac Studios and Mac Pro, its most popular 13-inch MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro haven't been updated since last year. And the most recent update for the high-end MacBook Pro came in January of this year.

As with Apple's earlier Mac chip releases, the company is preparing a series of different models of the M3 chip. According to the test logs, the base M3 chip is configured the same way as the M2, with eight CPU cores and up to 10 GPU cores; the M3 Pro chip has 12 CPU cores and 18 GPU cores. the M3 Max chip has 16 CPU cores and 40 GPU cores, and the higher-end M3 chip, which replaces the M2 Ultra, hasn't yet appeared in the test logs.

Apple could transition to the M3 series of chips this October, starting with an upgrade to the company's entry-level Mac computers. Apple has already tested the iMac, 13-inch MacBook pro, 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air, and Mac mini based on the M3 series chips, all of which are set to be released in the next 12 months. New 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models could be available in 2024, powered by the M3 Pro and M3 Max chips, respectively.

Last week Apple released its financial results for the third fiscal quarter ending July 1 this year, which hinted that the new Mac computers won't hit the market until after the fourth fiscal quarter, which ends at the end of September this year. Apple reportedly plans to launch a new product in October this year, after Apple also released a new Mac computer in October.