New iPad Professional might need M4 chip

Apple is lastly asserting new tablets on Could 7, and the oft-rumored next-gen iPad Professional will probably be there in fact, in two sizes as at all times.

A brand new report from the normally dependable Mark Gurman over at Bloomberg now claims that the following iPad Professional may the truth is use Apple’s M4 chipset, skipping over the M3 completely.

Earlier this month Gurman outlined the M4’s launch timeline however that solely coated new Macs, the primary of that are anticipated to reach late this 12 months, adopted by others in 2025.

Launching the M4 with the brand new iPad Professional would imply this might be positioned as Apple’s “first really AI-powered gadget”, in response to Gurman. There may be, he says, “a robust risk” for this to occur, and if it does, then it’d clarify, at the least partially, why we needed to wait for thus lengthy for brand new iPads.

The brand new iPad Professional may have an OLED show for the primary time on an Apple pill, and that can allow it to be the thinnest iPad ever. Gurman says Apple will “deal with how the M4 chip and new iPad Professionals will make the most of the AI software program and companies coming as a part of iPadOS 18 within the fall” throughout its Worldwide Builders Convention in June.