Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Monday, May 15th, 2023 I'm Brian McCullough today

after some news about Apple Testing M3 chips, it's Media Day on the podcast.

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Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

We obviously knew this was coming, but maybe we thought it had been delayed a bit.

I'm talking about the M3 chips from Apple which may be coming sooner

than we all thought after developer logs have shown Apple has been testing an M3 chip with 12 CPU cores 18

GPU cores and 36 gigabytes of RAM.

quoting who else but Mark Garman.

The company has begun putting next generation max with the M3 chips through their paces, testing them with

third-party apps to ensure compatibility with its software ecosystem.

It's not the first time that we've gotten an early glimpse at new chips through this process. The company has previously

revealed specifications of the upcoming 15 inch Macbook Air and Apple Silicon Mac Pro as well as many of the

prior M2-based machines.

The company needs fresh ways to entice customers back to the lineup,

and the M3 could help with that.

Apple's Mac business suffered a 31% sales decline last quarter,

missing analysts already downbeat estimates.

So what does the M3 look like?

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