No need to be Ming-Chi Kuo and Jon Prosser to predict that future MacBooks and iPads will mount displays with the new Mini-LED panel system. It's just a matter of time.
And it seems that it will be relatively short to see the first iPad models with such technology screens. It seems that LG will begin mass production of specific panels for a new iPad Pro, which will be released early next year.
The Korean News Agency ETNews has published today a report where it explains that the panel manufacturer LG will be in charge of manufacturing the components of the new Mini-LED screens that will be launched in the first quarter of the 2021.
The article states that mass production of these panels will begin shortly, to be supplied to Apple assemblers later this year. So a few months later these new iPad with panels would already be available for sale Mini LED.
displays using such Mini-LED technology provide many of the same benefits as displays OLED, further increasing the brightness, better contrast ratio and greater energy efficiency.
It is true that in the month of March of this year, the iPad Pro It already got a hardware upgrade, but it was a relatively minor overhaul, with new features including an A12Z Bionic chip which is essentially an A12X chip with an additional GPU core enabled, an ultra-wide camera that allows for 0,5 zoom. magnifications, a LIDAR Scanner to improve augmented reality and better sound microphones.
After the staging of the brand new iPad Air, the iPad Pro is crying out for a new update to the A14 Bionic processor, and already with a Mini-Led screen, to be able to justify its price against the new iPad Air. We will see then.
