Apple has scheduled an event for March 4th, where it will unveil a bunch of new products. Among the announcements could be the new MacBook Pros. The new models will arrive with the new Apple M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, which will reportedly switch to TSMC’s 2.5D chiplet design in a big move. Apple is moving away from InFo technology (Integrated Fan-Out). This transition could bring a potential performance boost.
Apple M5 Pro and M5 Max could use a new chiplet design
This chiplet design will reportedly help Apple improve heat dissipation and reduce defective chip rates during manufacturing. Perhaps the biggest benefit of this transition is the scope for increased power. For two generations, if there’s one obstacle that Apple couldn’t scale, it is raising the total number of CPU and GPU cores. However, that might be changing very soon. Going by the new discussion on Reddit, the new chiplet design could allow the M5 Pro and M5 Max to pack additional CPU and GPU cores.
The new chiplet design is already rumored to boost the transistor count for Apple’s upcoming silicon. A detailed Reddit post by user One_TrackMinded offers an in-depth look at the M5 Pro and M5 Max layout. The majority of the issues the new design tries to address, like thermal and electrical contamination and higher temperatures, which the M5 suffers when it’s pushed hard, were discussed before.
More CPU and GPU cores, finally
Among the multiple things discussed in the post, one thing that stands out is the new chipset design. With this, Apple can finally incorporate higher CPU and GPU cores into the M5 Pro and M5 Max. For reference, both the M3 Max and M4 Max came with up to a 14-core GPU and up to a 40-core GPU. Now that the CPU and GPU sit on separate blocks, even the M5 Pro could offer a power configuration. This means consumers don’t have to spend a premium on the M5 Max MacBook Pro models.
That said, Apple still hasn’t said anything about moving to this chiplet design. But it seems to be the most logical move, as chipsets keep growing in size and complexity. Meanwhile, theories suggest that M5 Pro and M5 Max aren’t two distinct chips but variants of the same one. The M5 Max. This was apparently the reason why there were no signs of the M5 Pro in a recent beta code leak.
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