Therefore, it’s likely that Apple will slot its existing M1 Pro and Max chips into something like the bigger iMac, with a potential multi-chip design for the iMac Pro and Mac Pro. Heck, Apple even put one in an iPad, so it won’t be doing a lot of heavy lifting in a bigger machine. The baseline M1 and its presumable successor are very small chips. The reason for that, and this is just a guess, is those bigger machines require at the very least a chip like the M1 Pro and M1 Max. Of course, these rumors of an incoming M2 chip leave out the most powerful Macs in the company’s lineup, namely the bigger iMac and the Mac Pro. It’s unclear at this time when 3nm parts will arrive however, though it’s already been reported that both Intel and Apple have been securing 3nm wafer capacity from TSMC for future products. If TSMC has spun up its 3nm process for the chips though, it could offer up to 15 percent more performance with 30 percent more efficiency.

This suggests the M2 will be more efficient but not necessarily more powerful. However, though Apple is using TSMC’s 5nm process for its current M1 chips, it’s rumored to be using the company’s 4nm node for M2. It will likely feature the same design as the M1 with eight cores total: four performance cores and four efficiency cores. As the entry-level SoC in Apple’s arsenal, don’t expect big changes from the M2. The information comes from Mark Gurman via MacWorld, and he’s reportedly saying Apple has four new Macs in the pipeline for 2022, all with variations of the upcoming M2 chip. All existing M1 models will be reportedly be upgraded to Apple’s second gen M2 chips. According to Apple prognosticator Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, the transition is proceeding on schedule, with all remaining Macs to jettison their Intel silicon this year. Apple still has several models that are using Intel CPUs: the 27-inch iMac, a theoretical iMac Pro (Apple no longer sells this model, but could offer a new version), and the big daddy Mac Pro. Now that’s it’s 2022, the rumor mill is beginning to crank out some info about how the transition will be finalized. Back then, the company estimated the transition would take roughly two years. When Apple unveiled its all-new M1 CPU back in November 2020, it announced it would be transitioning all of its Mac computers from Intel chips to to its own silicon over time.

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