The Apple M3 is the third ARM-based SoC designed by Apple Inc as a central processing unit for its line of Macintosh computers.

It was first introduced at Apple's Scary Fast keynote on 30 October 2023 (2023-10-30).

It's identified internally as T8122 and the part number is APL1201.

• Manufacturer: TSMC
• Clock rate: 4.05 GHz (performance cores), ? GHz (efficiency cores).
• Core design: ? x 4 and ? x 4
• Instruction set: ARMv8.?-A

• Performance cores
  • L1: 192KB instruction, 128KB data.
  • L2: 16 MB (shared)
• Efficiency cores
  • L1: 128KB instruction, 64KB data.
  • L2: 4 MB (shared)

• Apple-designed 8-core (down-binned), 9-core (down-binned), or 10-core

• 8GB, 16GB or 24GB LPDDR5 in a unified configuration.

• iPad Air 11-inch (M3)
• iPad Air 13-inch (M3)
• iMac (24-inch, 2023)
• MacBook Pro (14-inch, Nov 2023) (J504AP)
• MacBook Air (13-inch, M3, 2024)
• MacBook Air (15-inch, M3, 2024)

• 7739.0.0.200.37

• None

• Application Processor
• M3 Pro
• M3 Max
• M3 Ultra

• Apple M3 on Wikipedia