The M2 generation of Macs hasn’t yet finished rolling out, with a 15-inch M2 MacBook Air and potentially an M2 Ultra Mac Pro expected to debut at Apple’s upcoming WWDC event. But the company is already working hard to prepare the following generation of devices, with testing on the M3 processors well underway according to a new rumor.
In the latest installment of his Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman of Bloomberg claims that Apple is working on the next update to its Mac chip, citing data shared by an understandably anonymous App Store developer. The version of the M3 spotted in testing, believed to be an approximation of the baseline M3 Pro, has 12 CPU cores, split into six high-performance cores and six lower-power efficiency cores. That compares with 10 CPU cores (six high-power and four efficiency) in the M2 Pro and eight (four/four) in the M1 Pro. The report thus gains the boost in credibility that comes with being a logical progression from previous releases.
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