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Apple Announces New 14-Inch and 16-Inch MacBook Pro Models With M3 Series Chips (www.macrumors.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.