Apple moves to parallel flash chips in entry-level M3 MacBook Air

By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) Apple has finally fixed its SSD speeds in the entry-level model of M3 MacBook Air, with it now using two flash chips instead of just one.15-inch MacBook AirEarly models of Apple Silicon MacBook Air suffered a problem with the lowest-capacity models, in that its SSD storage wasn’t necessarily as fast as other capacities. It now seems that, for the third generation, Apple has made a change to eliminate the problem.In previous releases, it was discovered that the base 256GB capacity models used only one flash chip for storage. While other models used two running in parallel, such as two 256GB chips for a 512GB capacity drive, the 256GB model would use one 256GB flash chip instead of two 128GB versions. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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