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From Gurman.
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New ipad with USB-C, new ipad pro with M2, probably Mac Pro and maybe MacBook Pros with M2.
I hope the iPad Pro finally moves the camera/Face ID to the long side. My hand is always blocking the Face ID, and when I use zoom/webex/teams it always looks like I am looking to the right. Other rumor for iPad Pro is some sort of magsafe, and previously there were some sort of rumors about using it as a magnetic charger for other devices, but I doubt the latter.
as for the new MacBook Pros, the big question will be whether the M2 Max (and chopped versions of it) are on N3, N4, or N5P. At this point it beats me. My understanding is that it was pretty easy to generate the design such that it would work on any of those nodes since they all have similar design rules and the differences would be confined within standard cells, so it’s probably just a question of the size of the order and how fast TSMC ramps up. The linked article also suggests MBP may not appear at this event, which, if true, would tend to support the idea that it will be N3 when it comes. But I’ll be very interested in the answer - if Apple does use N3, it shows they are not just always going to take the simple route they took with the M1 variants - in the future there may be increasingly more different segmentation between high end and lower end M-series chips within a generation.
iPad 10th Gen with USB-C, M2 iPad Pro and Macs coming at Apple October event, says Gurman
Looks like we're about to be hit with a lot more Apple hardware in a couple of months.
www.imore.com
New ipad with USB-C, new ipad pro with M2, probably Mac Pro and maybe MacBook Pros with M2.
I hope the iPad Pro finally moves the camera/Face ID to the long side. My hand is always blocking the Face ID, and when I use zoom/webex/teams it always looks like I am looking to the right. Other rumor for iPad Pro is some sort of magsafe, and previously there were some sort of rumors about using it as a magnetic charger for other devices, but I doubt the latter.
as for the new MacBook Pros, the big question will be whether the M2 Max (and chopped versions of it) are on N3, N4, or N5P. At this point it beats me. My understanding is that it was pretty easy to generate the design such that it would work on any of those nodes since they all have similar design rules and the differences would be confined within standard cells, so it’s probably just a question of the size of the order and how fast TSMC ramps up. The linked article also suggests MBP may not appear at this event, which, if true, would tend to support the idea that it will be N3 when it comes. But I’ll be very interested in the answer - if Apple does use N3, it shows they are not just always going to take the simple route they took with the M1 variants - in the future there may be increasingly more different segmentation between high end and lower end M-series chips within a generation.
It should be coming soon. And yet, there's been zero specific rumors about it. A15/M2 based... for sure? Too late to be A14/M1 based, too early to be A16/M3 based.
