San Francisco: Apple will improve all the lineup of iPad in 2024 and add a brand new bigger 12.9-inch iPad Air together with the ten.9-inch mannequin, a number one analyst has stated.
Ming-Chi Kuo of TF Worldwide Securities, in his newest outlook, predicted that Apple will make up for this yr’s lack of motion in its iPad lineup by updating all present fashions, starting with a refreshed 10.9-inch and new 12.9-inch iPad Air with new chips, that are set to enter mass manufacturing within the first quarter of 2024.
He talked about that the 12.9-inch iPad Air can have an LCD display that lacks the mini-LED know-how of Apple’s present iPad Professional fashions, however will profit from the identical oxide backplane.
“The 12.9-inch iPad Air is an all-new mannequin, and whereas it lacks mini-LED, it advantages from an Oxide backplane (the identical spec as the present mini-LED iPad Professional’s), providing higher show efficiency than the ten.9-inch iPad Air with a-Si backplane,” Kuo wrote in a Medium submit on Sunday.
Based on the analyst, key upgrades will embody the M3 processor and OLED shows within the iPad lineup.
Kuo forecasted whole iPad shipments of 52-54 million models, a minor improve over the estimated 50 million models shipped this yr however nonetheless far in need of the 63 million pandemic peak of 2022.
He additionally predicted that the 2 new OLED iPad Execs, changing mini-LED, will go into mass manufacturing in late 2024 and have an M3 processor and improved kind issue designs.
“Shipments of the 2 OLED iPad Professional fashions shall be 6-8 million models in 2024, with barely weaker cargo momentum than the present iPad Execs, presumably as a result of increased value of OLED iPads and potential cannibalisation from the 12.9-inch iPad Air,” the analyst stated.
