Apple's official website in last week, without warning, directly announced that at 10 pm China time on May 7th, there will be an Apple Event special event "Let Loose", no surprise is to update iPad products, including iPad Pro, iPad Air and iPad accessories, and now Bloomberg reporters pointed out in the latest report that this iPad Pro is likely to skip the M3 chip directly, using the new M4 chip as the focus of the upgrade.
iPad Pro is coming soon, is it possible to use the M4 chip?
Apple is expected to hold a new product launch conference next week, the content is to launch updated iPad products, including the high-end iPad Pro model, its screen specifications, performance are all indicators of everyone's attention, so it was originally predicted that its update content, including the use of M3 chips, the screen into an OLED panel, etc., which has made everyone look forward to the updated iPad Pro.
However, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman, who has always been accurate about Apple, pointed out in his latest report:
I've heard that there's a good chance that the chip in the new iPad Pro is M4, not M3
He further said in the report that Apple is accelerating the upgrade of computer processors and plans to launch new iMacs, MacBook Pro and Mac mini products later this year with M4 chips, which are Apple's paving the way for new artificial intelligence capabilities, which means that devices can handle more complex machine learning tasks and enhanced AI capabilities.
However, he has the latest development on the M4 chip, which is that this year's Mac may not be the only AI-powered device with the M4 chip, and Apple is likely to directly use the new iPad Pro as a hardware transformation to the field of artificial intelligence.
Therefore, if Bloomberg's news is accurate enough, it means that the content of next week's new product launch will not only have iPad Pro, iPad Air and iPad accessories, but also explain the performance of the new M4 chip, which seems to confirm Mark Gurman's belief that Apple wants to accelerate the development of chips in order to keep up with the pace of artificial intelligence.
Apple Silicon 处理器推出时程表
| Wafer/rollout time | Launch time | How long is it since the previous generation |
| M4 (This is a prediction message) | End of 2024 | Approximately 12-13 months |
| M3 | October 2023 | Approximately 16 months |
| M2 | June 2022 | Approximately 19 months |
| M1 | November 2020 | - |
summary
Apple's previous announcements on the M chip are all unveiled with the MacBook, first let the Mac be equipped with the latest Silicon processor, and then it will be released to the iPad Pro and iPad Air one after another, so will Apple really let the iPad Pro be the first to be equipped with the M4 chip this time?