Apple Could Debut M2 MacBook Pro 14 And 16 Very Soon

These upcoming machines are tipped to be armed with successors to the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips and tentatively called the M2 Pro and M2 Max. Gurman has previously speculated Apple also has M2 Ultra and M2 Extreme variants lined up for Mac hardware in the coming quarters.

For the M2 Pro and M2 Max, Gurman notes that the focus will be on an upgrade in the graphics performance. With the vanilla M2 chip that Apple has fitted inside the updated 2022 MacBook Air and the 13-inch MacBook Pro refresh, Apple bumped the processing power by arming it with 10 CPU cores, up from the eight CPU cores on the M1 chip.

Whether Apple will increase the CPU core count for the M2 Pro and M2 Max remains to be seen. But there is some precedent for that happening, at least for the M2 Max trim. While the M1 Pro arrived in variants with 8-core and 10-core CPUs, the M1 Max was available solely in 10-core CPU configurations. 

Assuming Apple takes the same route, M2 Pro and M2 Max could very well jump to versions with 12 CPU cores, or more. On the graphics side of things, the M2 Pro and M2 Max could build up by adding more cores to the mix, beefing up the GPU core numbers available on the M1 Pro with 14 and 16 graphics cores and M1 Max with 24 and 32 graphics cores.