iPad 12 and iPad Air 8 Reportedly Coming Soon

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Apple is readying to motorboat caller iPad and iPad Air models successful the adjacent future, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports.

Writing successful today's "Power On" newsletter, Gurman explained that updated iPads are "coming soon," including a caller entry-level ‌iPad‌ and a caller ‌iPad Air‌. Both devices are not expected to diagnostic plan changes oregon large enhancements, alternatively focusing connected caller chips. The 12th-generation ‌iPad‌ is acceptable to diagnostic the A18 chip, portion the eighth-generation ‌iPad Air‌ volition seemingly diagnostic the M4 chip. The iPad mini is said to beryllium the lone caller ‌iPad‌ acceptable to get a bigger upgrade this year, moving to an OLED display.

The caller spot is possibly astir important for the ‌iPad‌, which volition facilitate Apple Intelligence enactment connected the instrumentality for the archetypal time. Apple announced the 11th-generation ‌iPad‌ successful March 2025 with the A16 chip, which does not enactment ‌Apple Intelligence‌, contempt the exertion being wide disposable crossed Apple's different devices astatine that time.

The ‌iPad‌ saw beardown income implicit the holidays, mostly driven by the entry-level model. Apple purportedly plans to marketplace the caller exemplary heavy to endeavor customers.