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Apple yesterday introduced its new M3 chipset. The announcement got here solely 15 months after the announcement of its earlier chip household, the M2, in June 2022.
That is 4 months sooner than the M2 announcement, which got here 19 months after the M1 was introduced in November 2020.
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Breaking with custom, Apple additionally introduced a complete chip household, consisting of the M3, M3 Professional, and M3 Max. The high-end double-chip Extremely mannequin has solely been introduced for the M1.
Apple silicon chip household comparability
That will help you visualize the variations between the chip households, we have produced this single chart. Word the relative household efficiency variations.
That is knowledge from Apple and doesn’t name out which chips carry out towards which chip, however it will appear that they are measuring total household efficiency — apart from the M1 Extremely.
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ZDNET has persevering with protection of the M3, in addition to the brand new MacBook Professional and iMac fashions based mostly on it. Listed below are some nice articles to get you began:
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