M5 iPad Pro OLED Displays Enter Mass Production for October Launch

Apple is expected to merchandise caller iPad Pro models powered by its latest M5 spot aboriginal this year, and some Samsung Display and LG Display person reportedly begun wide accumulation of the devices' OLED panels successful preparation.


For past year's iPad Pro models which debuted OLED displays, Samsung handled proviso for the 11-inch panels, portion LG dealt with the 13-inch panels. This year, ZDNet Korea reports that the 2 manufacturers volition stock proviso for some sheet sizes, apt arsenic a effect of Apple's efforts to diversify its proviso chain.

The alteration is besides apt related to Apple's request to deepen OLED adoption crossed its suppliers. Reports suggest plans to present OLED panels for the iPad mini successful 2026 and the iPad Air successful 2027.

Aside from OLED displays, past year's M4 iPad Pro models adopted a thinner and lighter design, enactment for the caller Apple Pencil Pro, and more. This year, the iPad Pro volition apt person a overmuch smaller update, with nary large upgrades rumored beyond the M5 chip, which volition beryllium manufactured connected TSMC's much precocious 3-nanometer process exertion for show and ratio improvements.

The lone different imaginable alteration that's been rumored is for the Apple logo connected the backmost to power to a landscape orientation alternatively than a representation orientation. That would marque the Apple logo upright erstwhile the iPad is successful scenery mode, specified arsenic erstwhile it is utilized with a keyboard.

Back successful March, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said the caller iPad Pro models could motorboat around October this year. For reference, the M4 iPad Pro models launched successful May of 2024.

(Via DigiTimes.)
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