iPad Professional shifting to OLED
The iPad Professional is anticipated to maneuver to OLED in 2024, and a brand new provide chain report says manufacturing begins in February.
Rumors have been flying for years about Apple shifting its iPad lineup to OLED. It settled on mini-LED backlighting for the 12.9-inch iPad Professional as a stopgap till OLED may turn out to be reasonably priced sufficient at that show measurement.
In line with an business report from South Korea’s Chosun Biz, shared by OLED Data, OLED panels for Apple’s iPad lineup will start manufacturing in February. That is the one new piece of data from this report, as the ten million unit rely and 60/40 break up between Samsung and LG had been already shared in an earlier report.
Apple is anticipated to maneuver its iPad mini and iPad Air to OLED by 2026 as effectively. The preliminary 10 million provide seems geared in direction of the 11-inch iPad Professional and 12.9-inch iPad Professional.
These business studies align with a rumor shared by Mark Gurman in August, and extra not too long ago by Digitimes. Each recommend that Apple is gearing up for an OLED iPad Professional refresh in early 2024.
Gurman additionally suggests the 2024 iPad lineup adjustments will embody a barely bigger 13-inch mannequin, a brand new aluminum Magic Keyboard, and the M3 chipset. He calls this Apple’s “greatest likelihood in years to reinvigorate the market.”
This report is sort of similar to Omdia’s, which we rated doable. It appears doubtless Apple may begin manufacturing of OLED for iPad Execs in February for a mid-year launch — via rumors have beforehand anticipated a spring launch.
2023 is the primary yr for the reason that iPad was launched and not using a mannequin replace. Rumors recommend 2024 goes to be a giant yr for iPad.
