The next models of Apple’s MacBook Pro laptops will arrive in 2024 and will receive the M3 Pro and M3 Max socs, TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims. Apple serendipitously announced new MacBook Pro models with M2 Pro and M2 Max socs on Tuesday.

The following MacBook Pro laptop models will enter mass production in the first six months of next year, Expect Ming Chi Kuo. Presumably they will have either the M3 Pro or M3 Max baked into 3nm. Kuo expects the said M3 socs to be produced on the basis of TSMC’s N3P or N3S process. N3P is a process for economical chips and N3S is a variant of this for higher density and possibly smaller chips.

The aforementioned M3 Pro and M3 Max should become the successors to the M2 Pro or M2 Max socs announced on Tuesday, The latest MacBook Pro laptop models sits. Apple states that the new M2 SOCs have a 40 percent faster Neural Engine with 16 cores, compared to previous Apple SOCs. M2 Pro contains 40 billion transistors; That’s 20 percent more than the M1 Pro and double the number for the regular M2.

additional Kuo expects That the next MacBook Mini will also be released in 2024 and will not receive a redesign. The analyst doesn’t say anything about the processors or specifications of these 2024 models. Apple also has a Tuesday Updated Mac mini models announced Equipped with the faster and also new M2 soc or M2 Pro standard.