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There is questions about posted performance levels but more interestingly is Apple dropped the price of their entry level laptops. They added new entry level and bigger more powerful high end models. All based on 3nm TSMC produced chips worlds first could be at least a year ahead of competitors in regards to 3nm though Intel did show 4nm chips so who know?
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- Apple announced three new chips, all under the broader M3 product banner. The current generation of chips is the M2.
- There is an entry-level M3, a 40% faster M3 Pro, and a 250% faster M3 Max chip for AI developers and 3D artists.
- Apple says all M3 chips can get up to 22 hours of battery life on a laptop.
- The M3 has a 8 core central processing unit and up to a 10 core graphics processing unit.
- The M3 Pro has a 12 core CPU and an 18 core GPU.
- The M3 Max has a 16 core CPU and as many as 40 cores on its GPU. Apple says it can be used for developing artificial intelligence software.
- Apple says that its current-generation GPUs are 1.8 times as fast as the GPUs on the M2 chips.
- Apple says its CPU cores on the M3 are 15% faster than M2 CPU performance cores for heavy workloads. The M3 processor is 60% faster than its M1 processor, Apple said.
- The new chips are built on a 3 nanometer process, which is currently the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing technology from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.
- Machines with the M3 Max won’t ship until later in November.