Next-gen MacBook Pro models with M2 Pro and M2 Max chips ‘delayed again’
Apple’s next-generation 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with M2 Pro and M2 Max chipsets were due to hit the market in “early 2023,” but now the laptops are expected to be delayed again, according to Apple Inc. The Taiwanese. Publishing DigiTimes.
The report does not provide a revised launch time frame for the new MacBook Pro. in newsletter this past weekendAnd bloombergApple plans to launch laptops in the first half of this year, said Mark Gurman of Apple, and said that they will have the same designs and features as the current models, but with the M2 Pro and M2 Max chipsets. Gurman said these chips will only offer marginal performance improvements over the existing M1 Pro and M1 Max.
In late October, Gurman said that Apple plans to launch the new MacBook Pro in the first quarter of 2023 and pegged the launches to the upcoming macOS 13.3 release, but it’s unclear if those plans have changed since then. Based on Gurman’s latest time frame of the first half of 2023, MacBook Pros should finally be launched by Apple’s annual WWDC developer conference in June at the latest, but hopefully soon.
TSMC, Apple’s chip-making partner, began mass production of 3nm chips in late December, but reports have been conflicting about whether the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips will be 3nm or will remain 5nm like the M1 Pro and M1 Max.
The remainder of the report focuses on how MacBook shipments will likely decline by 40% to 50% sequentially in the first quarter of 2023, citing unnamed supply chain sources. The report claims that Apple “adjusting its shipping ratios” by adding Wingtech as a MacBook assembler is the main reason for the significant drop.
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