In December, we heard that Apple’s M5 chip family will enter mass production in early 2025. Cut to now, we just got an update suggesting the vanilla Apple M5 Series SoC has actually entered mass production. Interestingly, the upcoming iPad Pro will be the first recipient. Now that we got you all jacked up, let’s see what we know or heard about the new chipsets so far.
Apple M5 Series Chip Reportedly Enters Mass Production
According to the folks at ETNews, Apple’s next-gen vanilla M5 SoC has entered mass production. The M5 family chips are based on TSMC’s N3P process which reportedly consumes 5-10% less power while still putting five percent more power than before.
According to the rumors, Apple will up its AI game with the M5 series chipsets by integrating a beefy NPU rather than the M4 Series. For context, M4’s NPU could churn 38 TOPs while 2023 M3 SoC was able to churn only 18 TOPS.
Note that only the vanilla Apple M5 chip is being produced. The M5 Pro and M5 Max are in line to start production sometime in the second half of this year. The top-of-the-brass M5 Ultra will enter production only in 2026 powering a new fleet of Mac devices like never before.
Rumors suggests Apple had to let go of the TSMC 2nm process due to increasing tariffs put up by US President Trump. But hey, it doesn’t mean the Apple M5 Series SoCs will be just another processors out there but rather provide a slightly better performance than the M4.
The upcoming family of M5 Series SoC uses System-on-Integrated-Chips-molding-Horizontal (SoIC-mH). This stacking design reportedly allows the Cupertino-based giant to reduce the size of the SoC by 30-50% while still improving thermal performance and throttling on the chipset. We even heard there is an Apple M5 for Vision Pro as well.
Apple is expected to go big with M5 Series SoCs. It will make a leap in AI performance. There are also talks about separate CPU and GPU designs for the upcoming series that will also result in performance gains.
We are expecting some massive launches at Apple’s Spring Event 2024 including the much-anticipated iPhone SE 4, a MacBook Air with M4, and new iPads. It seems like getting a M5-flavored iPad Pro isn’t much of a wait if everything goes as per the
