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Apple Announces New 14-Inch and 16-Inch MacBook Pro Models With M3 Series Chips
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What happened to M3 air, either 13in or 15in models? I didn't expect to see a 15 in refresh, but idk about the 13 in. Is apple pulling a page out of Nvidia's book and launching higher end models first now to get upsell consumers?
Could be, but Airs are their best seller so they might not have enough chips to match demand. And the 15” launched just a few months ago
M3 is probably on TSMC N3B, a node that is a disaster for yield so much that every customer other than Apple and maybe Intel has decided to skip it altogether. I suspect there's just enough volume to ship the Pro iPhones, Pro Macbooks, and the low volume iMac. The mass market regular iPhone and Macbook Air is likely too high volume.