M5 Pro and M5 Max are surprisingly big departures from older Apple Silicon - Ars Technica

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Apple's M5 Pro and M5 Max chips introduce a chiplet-based Fusion Architecture and a third CPU core type, splitting CPU/GPU across two dies for the first time in non-Ultra chips.

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