Apple may release a 15-inch MacBook Air with an M2 chip. According to Taiwan’s DigiTimes, Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Air will feature the M2 chip. The report claims that the laptop will be released in the second quarter of 2023, between April and June.
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“Industry sources said the 15-inch MacBook Air went into mass production after the Lunar New Year and is expected to be released in the second quarter,” the report said.
Apple already updated the 13-inch MacBook Air with the M2 chip in July 2022. The chip is being manufactured on TSMC’s second-generation 5nm process, and some industry observers see it as a temporary solution until the 3nm M3 chip is ready. TSMC began mass production of 3nm chips in December.
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said last year that a new 15-inch MacBook with M2 and M2 Pro chips would be released in the second quarter of 2023 or later. Kuo said that the new MacBook may be stripped of the Air name.
Sources of the report believe that Apple may again update the MacBook Air with the M3 chip in the second half of 2023. It’s not like Apple was, the company doesn’t usually update MacBooks twice a year, but it’s certainly possible. Sources said that the latest 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro models were originally supposed to be equipped with 3nm chips, but the M2 Pro and M2 Max are still 5nm chips in the end.
The information comes just a day after display industry analyst Ross Young revealed that Apple’s supply chain began production of display matrices for the 15-inch MacBook Air this month. Yang estimated that the new MacBook Air will be released in “early April”, which is the beginning of the second quarter reported today.
The new 15-inch display will be the largest ever for a MacBook Air. Over the years, the laptop has been available in 11-inch and 13-inch sizes.