Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman says Apple is already developing 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air models with the M3 chip. Gurman’s remarks came in the latest edition of his Power On newsletter. Gurman says he expects the new laptops to hit shelves in 2024.
Apple’s current 13-inch MacBook Air was announced in June 2022, while the 15-inch model was introduced last week. Both models are currently powered by Apple’s M2 chip, which is fabricated using TSMC’s 5nm process. The upcoming M3 chips are expected to be built on TSMC’s 3nm process. This should result in large performance and power efficiency improvements. Gurman said the M3 chip should have similar CPU and GPU core counts as the M2 chip.
Gurman repeated earlier claims that new iMac and 13-inch MacBook Pro models with the M3 chip are also in development. He expects the new iMac to launch early next year and should sport a similar design as the current model from 2020, which is still powered by an M1 chip.