Apple reportedly stopped producing M2 socs in January and February, and in March it had about half the number of M1 socs produced last year. Apple has said before that the laptop market is struggling due to low demand.

that TSMC made no M2 socs at all in January and February, Elec infers information from suppliers. They say they didn’t supply the parts needed to manufacture oil and gas companies at all for production in those months, while deliveries in March are half of what they were with M1 SOCs a year ago.

Apple released several products with the M2 soc last year and this year, including the MacBook Air, the 13-inch MacBook Pro, the Mac Mini, and several iPad Pro models. In the final months of 2022 Mac sales totaled $7.7 billion, down 29 percent, the company says it’s in line with expectations Redesigned MacBook Pro laptops with M1 Pro and M1 Pro M1 Max processors were introduced and included These sales are partly in the results announced in January 2022. This is not now, because the MacBook Pro along with the M2 Pro and M2 Max only appeared this year.