In a new Medium put up, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says two iPad Air fashions, 10.9-inch and 12.9-inch, are scheduled for mass manufacturing within the first quarter of 2024.
“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 an a-Si backplane,” he provides.
Kuo can also be predicting two new OLED iPad Professionals, changing the present mini-LED fashions, will begin mass manufacturing within the first or second quarter of 2024. The OLED iPad Professionals will reportedly function an M3 processor and the improved kind issue designs.
“If the worth of the brand new 10.9-inch iPad Air stays unchanged, and the brand new 12.9-inch iPad Air is certainly dearer than the ten.9-inch mannequin, then if Apple needs to keep up the worth hole between the iPad Air and iPad Professional to protect its current product segmentation technique, it signifies that the brand new OLED iPad Professionals might even see a worth enhance,” he provides.
Kuo predicts that shipments of the 2 OLED iPad Professional fashions can be 6–8 million models in 2024, with barely weaker cargo momentum than the present iPad Professionals, presumably as a result of greater worth of OLED iPads and potential cannibalization from the 12.9-inch iPad Air.
As for the iPad mini, he says that mass manufacturing of the brand new iPad mini will begin within the second half of subsequent 12 months. And the brand new eleventh era. iPad will purportedly enter mass manufacturing on the similar time.
