Apple chipset leak teases the iPads we can expect to see in 2024

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Appletook a year offfrom launching iPads in 2023 – for the first year in the iPad’s history – and that probably means a stacked tablet schedule in 2024. Now a new chipset leak has given us a better idea of what’s coming our way in the next few months.

This leak comes courtesy of a private social media post seen byMacRumors, and includes a list of 16 Apple devices together with the chips they’re running. Most importantly for our purposes, eight of those devices haven’t been released yet.

Two are listed as having the A14 Bionic chip inside, first seen in theiPad Air 4and theiPhone 12from 2020: it’s also in the current10th-gen iPadlaunched in 2022, so if the next entry-level iPad uses it as well, it’ll be a running a chip that’s four years old.

Alternatively, they might refer to reconfigured versions of the current iPad that will appear when the next versionarrives this year. Another possibility is these devices are actually variants of the HomePod-with-a-display that’s beenrumored for a while.

Chips with everything

Moving on, we’ve got two devices with an A17 Pro chip, which made its debut in theiPhone 15 Proand theiPhone 15 Pro Maxlast year. This piece of silicon could well be powering theiPad mini 7when it arrives, which would be a hefty upgrade.

Lastly, there are four devices with theM2 chipinside, and MacRumors reckons these are the fouriPad Air 6models – the two rumored 10.9-inch and 12.9-inch sizes, with either Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity on board.

The M2 chip was launched in 2022 and first found its way into the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro, before featuring in the latest iPad Pro models. You can also find it powering theApple Vision Prothat went on sale earlier this year.

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All of these various iPads were expected to show up this year, and the new leak doesn’t tell us anything new in that regard – but we’ve now got a better idea of the specs that they’ll come with, and more evidence that they are indeed launching soon.

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Dave is a freelance tech journalist who has been writing about gadgets, apps and the web for more than two decades. Based out of Stockport, England, on TechRadar you’ll find him covering news, features and reviews, particularly for phones, tablets and wearables. Working to ensure our breaking news coverage is the best in the business over weekends, David also has bylines at Gizmodo, T3, PopSci and a few other places besides, as well as being many years editing the likes of PC Explorer and The Hardware Handbook.

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