Apple’s next event, Let Loosewill be held next May 7th and as can be guessed from the chosen artwork will be mainly dedicated to the iPad and the hardware that will be mounted on it, however, according to Mark Gurman, a Bloomberg journalist who has always been very close to the events involving Cupertino, there are strong chances of assisting at the debut of M4 from Apple, a processor with an updated neural engine which will therefore increase performance in AI workloads.
SoC dedicated to AI
Indeed, in recent times Apple had changed its corporate philosophy by deciding to accelerate the hardware update of its products as well as of the processors, it is no coincidence that the devices with the M3 chip debuted only a few months ago, and so there is not even time to understand something that Apple would already ready to introduce the successor, M4, based on a improved neural motor which would put the Apple company on the same level as other competitors, allowing it to archive the AI goal and then work on it calmly to improve all the AI technology on its devices.
According to Gurman, therefore, iPad Pro with Oled display should be the first devices to mount the new M4 chip and Apple could position these tablets as “the first devices truly based on artificial intelligence”after their presentation Apple could then define each product presented as an AI device, in order to respond to the growing popularity that AI has gained in recent years.
As for the May 7 presentation, we have that according to Gurman it will be exclusively online and relatively shortroughly less than an hour since there won’t be much to talk about other than the iPad and some accessories to match such as the new Apple Pencil 3 and the Magic Keyboard, obviously the new iPad Air with display are also highly anticipated 12.9 inches which however will still be powered by an LCD display.
