According to a report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is working on the MacBook Air and iMac with an M3 chip built on a more efficient 3-nanometer process. The M3 is expected to arrive later this year or early next year.

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Gurman first hinted at this last June when he wrote that the company was working on an M3-equipped 13-inch MacBook Air, a 15-inch MacBook Air, and a new iMac. An Apple insider noted that the M3 could appear as early as 2023, but so far this has not happened.

Apple has included the new M2 Pro and M2 Max processors in the MacBook Pro lineup, which it announced earlier this month, and has also added the M2 Pro to the Mac Mini. These chips are based on the second-generation 5nm process, which is an upgrade from the standard 5nm process that Apple uses to make its M1 chips.

The 16-inch Apple MacBook Pro with the M2 Max processor in the top configuration will cost $6,499

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The upcoming M3 is expected to take another step forward: according to TSMC, the company that makes chips for Apple, the 3nm process can increase speed by up to 15% and reduce power consumption by 30% compared to the 5nm process.

TSMC began mass production of 3nm chips at its factories in Taiwan last year, but the technology won’t arrive at the manufacturer’s new Arizona factory until 2026.

The MacBook Air and iMac aren’t the only devices that could get the M3 update soon. On the same day that Apple announced its new MacBook Pros, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that Apple could release another series of MacBook Pro models with the new 3nm M3 Pro and M3 Max processors in the first half of 2024.

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I will announce further new MacBook Pro models that will adapt to M3 Pro/M3 Max processors made at 3nm (if TSMC’s N3P or N3S), will go to the production process in 1H24.

— 郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) January 17, 2023

Source: The Verge