OLED iPad Air Rumored to Launch in Two Sizes in Early 2027

Apple is expected to regenerate the LCD screens successful some sizes of the iPad Air with OLED displays successful the archetypal fractional of 2027, according to DigiTimes.


An ‌OLED‌ ‌iPad Air‌ has been rumored for implicit a year. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported successful October 2025 that Apple was processing 1 and that it was improbable to get earlier 2027. He narrowed that window to the archetypal fractional of 2027 earlier this month. The latest study adds shipment estimates and details connected however sheet orders could beryllium split.

Samsung Display is expected to proviso astir ‌iPad Air‌ panels. BOE is seeking orders for 1 of the 2 sizes and inactive needs to suffice arsenic a supplier. With orders for the ‌iPad Air‌ and iPad mini, Samsung could go Apple's largest supplier of ‌OLED‌ iPad panels overall, portion LG Display is expected to clasp the pb for the iPad Pro.

Industry estimates cited by DigiTimes enactment 2027 shipments astatine 4 cardinal to 5 cardinal units each for the ‌iPad Air‌ and ‌iPad mini‌, and 3 cardinal to 4 cardinal for the ‌iPad Pro‌. The ‌iPad Air‌ and ‌iPad Pro‌ estimates each screen some surface sizes. The ‌iPad Pro‌ forecast is good beneath its reported pre-launch people of astir 10 cardinal units per year, with manufacture sources pointing to the terms arsenic a origin successful weaker demand.

Both sizes of the current M4 iPad Air usage LCD screens. The determination to ‌OLED‌ would marque the ‌iPad Air‌ Apple's 3rd ‌iPad‌ enactment to follow the technology, pursuing the ‌iPad Pro‌ successful 2024 and the 8.5-inch iPad mini that went connected merchantability November 6.

According to ‌DigiTimes‌, the ‌iPad Air‌ is expected to usage the aforesaid single-stack ‌OLED‌ plan and low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) backplane arsenic the ‌iPad mini‌. The ‌iPad Pro‌ uses 2 light-emitting stacks to boost brightness and reportedly uses a low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) backplane.

LTPO's oxide transistors assistance pixels clasp their complaint longer betwixt refreshes, truthful the show tin prevention powerfulness by refreshing little often erstwhile the representation is still. The ‌iPad Pro‌'s ProMotion show tin alteration its refresh complaint from 10Hz to 120Hz. ‌DigiTimes‌ previously reported that the ‌OLED‌ ‌iPad Air‌ would instrumentality with 60Hz, leaving ProMotion exclusive to the ‌iPad Pro‌ successful Apple's tablet lineup.
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