Apple doesn’t plan to launch a new 24-inch iMac until late 2023 at the earliest, according to Bloombergby Mark Gurman. In his newsletter today, he reiterated that he expects Apple to skip updating the iMac with the M2 chip and instead wait to release a model with the M3 chip, which has not yet been announced.


“I haven’t seen anything to indicate there will be a new iMac before the M3 chip generation, which won’t arrive until the end of this year at the earliest or next year,” Gurman wrote. “So if you want to stick with the iMac, you’ll just have to sit still.”

Apple’s M3 chip is expected to be manufactured based on TSMC’s latest 3nm process, offering additional performance and power efficiency improvements. The M3 chip is also expected to be used in a new MacBook Air due to launch by the second half of 2023, and potentially in future versions of the 13-inch MacBook Pro and Mac mini. In comparison, the M2 chip is built on TSMC’s second-generation 5nm process.

Apple last updated the iMac in April 2021 with the M1 chip and a new ultra-thin design available in seven colors, including green, yellow, orange, pink, purple, blue and money. It’s currently the only iMac available, as the Intel-based 27-inch iMac and iMac Pro have both been discontinued within the last two years. Gurman has previously claimed that a larger iMac could return, but he didn’t share any new information on that possibility today.

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