Apple has taken a year off from launching iPads in 2023 – for the first year in iPad history – and that likely means a stacked tablet schedule in 2024. Now a new chipset leak has given us a better idea of what we’ll get. awaits in the near future. few months.
This leak comes courtesy of a private social media post seen by MacRumors, and contains a list of 16 Apple devices, along with the chips they use. Most importantly for our purposes, eight of these devices have not yet been released.
There are two listed with the A14 Bionic chip inside, first seen in the iPad Air 4 and 2020’s iPhone 12: It’s also in the current 10th generation iPad launched in 2022, so as the next entry -iPad also uses this, it will be a chip that is four years old.
Alternatively, they could refer to reconfigured versions of the current iPad that will appear when the next version arrives this year. Another possibility is that these devices are actually variants of the HomePod-with-display that have been rumored for a while.
Chips with everything
Moving on, we have two devices with an A17 Pro chip, which made their debut last year in the iPhone 15 Pro and the iPhone 15 Pro Max. This piece of silicon could power the iPad mini 7 when it arrives, which would be quite an upgrade.
Finally, there are four devices with the M2 chip inside, and MacRumors thinks these are the four iPad Air 6 models – the two rumored 10.9-inch and 12.9-inch, with Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi and mobile connectivity on board.
Launched in 2022, the M2 chip first made its way to the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, before appearing in the latest iPad Pro models. You can also find it powering the Apple Vision Pro that went on sale earlier this year.
All these different iPads were expected to launch this year, and the new leak doesn’t tell us anything new in that regard – but we now have a better idea of the specs they’ll come with, and more evidence that they are indeed launching soon to go.