Apple Introduces Fusion Architecture for M5

Apple on March 3, 2026 announced M5 Pro and M5 Max chips that adopt a new Fusion Architecture, bonding two third-generation 3-nanometer dies in a modular system-on-chip. Apple says it preserves unified memory while the M5 Max delivers up to 614 GB/s memory bandwidth (M5 Pro 307 GB/s) and adds per-GPU-core Neural Accelerators, positioning laptops to run large local AI models.