Apple has plans to add a larger 12.9-inch iPad Air as a part of an entirely refreshed iPad lineup in 2024. Apple industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo also said two new iPad Air models will take priority on Apple’s launch roadmap.
In a Medium post on Sunday, Kuo predicted that Apple will update all of its existing iPad lineup, starting with a refreshed 10.9-inch and new 12.9-inch iPad Air, powered by new chips, scheduled to begin mass production in the first quarter of 2024.
Kuo says the 12.9-inch iPad Air will sport an LCD screen that will not use the mini-LED technology of Apple’s current iPad Pro models but will use the same oxide backplane. This will offer better display performance than the current 10.9-inch iPad Air which uses an a-Si backplane.
Apple will launch a new 11-inch and 13-inch OLED iPad Pro with a redesigned chassis and new M3 chip in the second quarter.
Kuo believes that the last 2024 iPad models to roll out will be a new iPad mini and an 11th-generation iPad.
Despite the new iPads, Kuo sees only modest gains in iPad shipments in 2024, predicting around 52-54 million units in 2024 compared to 2023.
