{"id":2482,"date":"2026-05-07T11:52:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:15:02","slug":"report-apple-kicks-off-new-run-of-a18-pro-chips-as-macbook-neo-demand-exceeds-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/report-apple-kicks-off-new-run-of-a18-pro-chips-as-macbook-neo-demand-exceeds-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Apple kicks off new run of A18 Pro chips as MacBook Neo demand exceeds expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/macbook-neo_eaaffa.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Without a doubt, the MacBook Neo is a smash hit. Apple talked about the success of the new laptop on its most recent earnings call, warning that supply constraints will continue into the current quarter. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.culpium.com\/p\/apple-doubles-macbook-neo-production\">Analyst Tim Culpan today reports<\/a> that Apple now plans to make about 10 million MacBook Neos in total, about twice as many as it initially ordered. This will entail its chip supplier TSMC manufacturing a new run of A18 Pro chips to power the machines, which Apple will inevitably have to foot the bill for.<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"mac,macbook-neo\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1051215\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/05\/07\/macbook-neo-new-chip-production-run\/#more-1051215\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without a doubt, the MacBook Neo is a smash hit. Apple talked about the success of the new ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2484,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions\/2484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}