With its Apple Silicon, the brand presented a new series of impressive processors. Today, we find on the market the M1 chips for the iMac and the Macbook, as well as the new M1 Max and M1 Pro for its Macbook Pro.
While their production requires a long delay, according to the Taiwanese newspaper Commercial Times, the successor to the M1 chip is already almost ready. It would be called M2 and would be integrated into the next versions of the Mac Mini, Macbooks and iMacs.
Sources among Apple's suppliers have even indicated that it will be manufactured by TSMC, just like the M1, and that it will use the 4nm manufacturing process for the first time.
The new M2 chip, codenamed "Staten", should appear later than expected, in the second half of 2022. The M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, also updated, could see the light of day in the first half of 2023, and the M3 chip in 2024.
We still know little about the M2 chips... However, the simple fact of switching to 4 nm technology should already guarantee better performance and increased efficiency.
It looks like Apple is planning to revamp its Mac lineup, with six new product lines starting in 2022, to better suit the three processor families.
- Macbooks (M2)
- Macbook Pro (M2Pro, M2Max)
- iMac (M2)
- iMac Pro (M2Pro, M2Max)
- Mac Mini (M2)
- Mac Pro (M2 Pro, M2Max).
The current Macbook Pro with CPU M1 would thus be removed and the iMac and iMac Pro would be more clearly differentiated.
Adaptation of the original article published on our sister site Macwelt.
