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Apple 14-Inch MacBook Pro M2 Teardown Reveals Big Changes Due to Substrate Pricing

Apple’s bean counter arguably forms one of the most powerful forces within the organization, even though much of the company’s high-profile success is tied to its design. His one of Apple’s major new consumer products, his 2023 14-inch MacBook Pro, is a case in point, and its design has changed significantly due to price fluctuations in the material and component markets.

i will fix I recently broke one of my laptops and was amazed at the variation in SoC size, cooler size, and NAND performance.chief analyst semi-analyticalDylan Patel was drafted to shed light on and provide an explanation for these changes.

Why is the heatsink so small?

After unveiling the new 2023 14-inch MacBook Pro M2 for the first time, the iFixIt team expected the cooling solution to be beefed up and enhanced compared to the previous M1 Pro version. After all, the M2 Pro inside this laptop was trumpeted as packing. 40 billion transistors (opens in new tab) — Almost 20% more than the M1 Pro, and double that amount on the M2. It was also claimed to offer 200GB/s of unified memory bandwidth, double that of the M2. Even more conveniently, compared to its direct predecessor, the M2 Pro was claimed by Apple to have around 20% faster CPU and up to 30% faster GPU.

(Image credit: iFixIt)

So it was quite a surprise to tech teardown experts that the heatsink/cooling assembly was noticeably smaller right away. I got it right away. The main reason is the new onboard RAM configuration.

Change from Apple M1 Pro to M2 Pro

Left: M1 Pro SoC / Right: M2 Pro SoC (Image credit: iFixIt)

In the photo above you can see the new SoC on the right. Patel explained that Apple instigated this change when there was a severe shortage of ABF substrates, so optimizing for this design constraint was very practical. The way Apple has chosen to do this is by changing from dual 8GB LPDDR5 RAM configurations to quad 4GB LPDDR5 RAM chips.

NAND supply squeezes performance

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