It’s been a few years since Apple started using its own Apple Silicon chips for its Mac devices and so far, the company has launched M1- and M2-series of chips in the market.
Now, the Cupertino-based technology giant is working on the third generation of Apple Silicon chips, and as per the latest reports, the Apple M3 Pro chipset could come with 12 CPU cores.
As per the report from Mark Gurman in the Power On newsletter, App Store developer logs show the chip running on an unannounced MacBook Pro laptop with the macOS 14 operating system. He further adds that the chipset is likely the base version of the M3 Pro and is expected to go official next year.
If the reports are to be believed, then the Apple M3-series chips will be manufactured using the 3nm node process from TSMC. For the 12 cores, much higher than the 8-core CPU in M1 Pro, the report indicates that the company is evenly splitting them between high-performance cores and efficiency cores.
Before we see the M3 Pro, there will be a couple of devices powered by the standard M3 chipset. This means that it’s likely that Apple will launch M3-powered Mac devices by the end of this year or early next year, followed by a couple of devices running the M3 Pro chip.
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