PANews reported on March 3rd that Apple has launched the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips for the new MacBook Pro, featuring the Fusion Architecture that integrates two third-generation 3nm chips into a single SoC for the first time. Both chips are equipped with an 18-core CPU (including 6 Super Cores and 12 new performance cores), offering up to 2.5 times faster multi-threaded performance than the M1 Pro/M1 Max, and up to 30% faster performance in some professional workflows. The GPU has up to 40 cores and integrates a Neural Accelerator in each GPU core, combined with higher bandwidth unified memory, resulting in more than 4 times the peak AI GPU computing power compared to the previous generation. The M5 Pro supports up to 64GB of unified memory and 307GB/s bandwidth; the M5 Max supports up to 128GB of unified memory and 614GB/s bandwidth, and integrates a 16-core Neural Engine, AV1 decoding, ProRes codec, and a Thunderbolt 5 controller. The new MacBook Pro will be available starting March 11.