Apple took 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 awaits us in the next. few moths.
This leak comes courtesy of a private social media post seen by MacRumors and includes a list of 16 Apple devices along with the chips they are running. Most importantly for our purposes, eight of those devices have yet to be released.
Two are listed with the A14 Bionic chip inside, first seen in the 2020 iPad Air 4 and iPhone 12 – it's also in the current 10th-generation iPad released in 2022, so if the next tier-level iPad input also uses it, it will run 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 a display that has been rumored for a while.
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Moving on, we have two devices with an A17 Pro chip, which made its debut in the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max last year. This piece of silicon could well power the iPad mini 7 when it arrives, which would be a considerable improvement.
Finally, there are four devices with the M2 chip inside, and MacRumors believes these are the four iPad Air 6 models: the two rumored sizes of 10.9 and 12.9 inches, with Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity on board. .
The M2 chip launched in 2022 and first arrived in the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, before appearing in the latest iPad Pro models. You can also find it in the Apple Vision Pro that went on sale earlier this year.
All of these iPads were expected to appear this year, and the new leak doesn't tell us anything new about it, but we now have a better idea of the specifications they will come with and more evidence. which will indeed be launched soon.
