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M5 Chip Coming to iPad Pro This Fall

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Refreshed iPad Pro models will be the first device to get Apple's faster M5 chip, reports Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Apple's high-end tablets could be refreshed as soon as October.

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Apple last updated the ‌iPad Pro‌ line with the M4 chip and OLED display technology in May 2024, so there will be about 17 months between the M4 launch and the M5 launch.

Since the ‌iPad Pro‌ got a major design overhaul with OLED in 2024, the 2025 models aren't expected to feature design changes. They'll have the same slimmed down chassis and OLED display, but will be equipped with the faster M5 chip. The M5 chip will be built on TSMC's improved 3-nanometer process, and it will bring performance and efficiency improvements.

Apple is working on new display technology that will slim down the ‌iPad Pro‌'s bezels, but it's not clear if that will be ready for the M5 models.

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awshucks Avatar
awshucks
10 months ago
Oh boy, the influx of comments about the "overkill iPad" are about to come again.
Score: 13 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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haemolysis
10 months ago

Apple is surprisingly aggressive about keeping the iPad Pro spec’d up, considering it isn’t a high-volume seller for them, and they have a tendency to neglect Pro lines that aren’t big sellers (cough, Mac Pro, cough).
Probably it is an opportunity for them to test production capacity of their new chips with a low-volume product.
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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zedsdead
10 months ago
If they put thunderbolt 5 in it, and it can output to two displays in clamshell mode via a dock, I’ll buy right away even though I have an M4 model.
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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JSRinUK
10 months ago
I’m clearly not the target for an iPad Pro. There’s nothing I do with my M1 iPad Pro (refurb) that requires more power.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
GMShadow Avatar
GMShadow
10 months ago

Oh boy, the influx of comments about the "overkill iPad" are about to come again.
Should calm down a lot with iPadOS 26.

We'll see if they standardize on 16GB of RAM across the board or keep the 8/16 bifurcation.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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RMo
10 months ago

If they put thunderbolt 5 in it, and it can output to two displays in clamshell mode via a dock, I’ll buy right away even though I have an M4 model.
Clamshell mode at all would be great; I'd use my iPad docked like a laptop more if I didn't have to keep it open. But unlock with Apple Watch (like the Mac) to go along with this would be even better, since Face ID obviously won't work in clamshell, and passcodes...can but feel like an ancient holdover at this point when pretty much all their other devices have some other method nowadays.

While we're wishing for things, those are mine!
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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