Will more than 7 new Macs be released within 2022? Will the first release in March and the second release in May-June?-Engadget Japanese version

Soon Apple will hold a special event in March, where it is rumored to announce “at least one” new Mac along with the 3rd generation iPhone SE and 5th generation iPad Air. Under such circumstances, it is expected that more than 7 new Macs equipped with Apple Silicon (Apple’s original development chip) will be introduced within 2022.

The source of this rumor is the latest issue of the newsletter “Power On” by Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman, who is familiar with Apple’s inside information. According to it, the new Macs that will appear later this year are:

• New Mac mini with M1 Pro chip

• A 13-inch MacBook Pro with an “M2” chip. It is the successor to the 2020 model and is positioned as a subordinate product of the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro.

• Mac mini with “M2” chip

• 24-inch iMac with “M2” chip

• MacBook Air with a redesigned “M2” chip

• Large iMac Pro with M1 Pro and M1 Max chips

• The first half-sized Mac Pro with Apple Silicone with two or four M1 Max chips

In addition, Gurman reaffirmed the expectation that the next new Mac will be announced at the March event, while the 13-inch MacBook Pro and Mac mini are “the oldest Apple in the current lineup.” He points out that it’s a Silicon Mac, suggesting that these two successors will be announced at the same time at the event.

Gourman adds that Apple is “preparing to release another Mac around May or June.” The promising candidate is the above-mentioned “Half-sized Mac Pro (compared to the 2019 model)”.

According to Gurman, “Apple wants to promote developer support for the super-powerful Mac Pro chip, so maybe it wants to debut at the WWDC event in June at the earliest and ship it in the fall.” … apparently …

Also, the “improved MacBook Air” will be a hot seller during the holiday season, so it makes sense to launch it at that time. If Apple initially launched it in late 2021 or early 2022. Even if it was planned to be released. “

This view is in line with the expectation that famous analyst Ming-Chi Kuo will start mass production in the third quarter of 2022 (launch after that), taking into account the prolonged shortage of semiconductors.

And Gurman said the second (May-June) new Mac release may focus on the next iMac Pro and the new Mac Pro with the “super-enhanced version of the M1 Max.”

In connection with that, the forecast of the “M2” chip, which is expected to be installed in the new 13-inch MacBook Pro, and the “M1 Max super-enhanced version” for the next Mac Pro are also explained in detail.

• The “M2” CPU is likely to be a bit faster than the M1, but should inherit the same 8 (CPU) core architecture.However, GPU cores may improve from 7-8 (M1) to 9-10 cores

• There are two types of new Mac Pro chips, one with twice the performance of the M1 Max and one with four times the performance.The former will have 20 CPU cores and 64 GPU cores, and the latter will have 40 CPU cores and 128 GPU cores.

Finally, Gourman predicts that the “Pro and Max versions of the M2” will be available in 2023 along with the original M3, based on the Apple Silicon Roadmap to date. It has been observed that new processors for Mac will be introduced every year and a half, but if it is every year, Mac users will be wondering when to buy a new one.

Source:Bloomberg

via: 9to5mac