The M4-in-iPad-Pro Sleuth
“Jamie I”, in the MacRumors forums, all the way back on April 14:
We have been expecting M3 iPad Pros for a while now but I was just
browsing through some of the rumors and I noticed something
interesting.
There was information from a private X account with a proven track
record that shared chip identifiers for the new WiFi + cellular
iPad Pros and it’s apparently using a T8132 chip. However, T8132
is not the identifier for the M3 chip which is T8122.
In fact, based on the pattern that the M series chips have been
following, it seems like it’s the M4 chip.
This was exactly right. It was also two weeks before Mark Gurman’s “I’m hearing there is a strong possibility that the chip in the new iPad Pro will be the M4, not the M3” eye-opener in his Power On column.
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“Jamie I”, in the MacRumors forums, all the way back on April 14:
We have been expecting M3 iPad Pros for a while now but I was just
browsing through some of the rumors and I noticed something
interesting.
There was information from a private X account with a proven track
record that shared chip identifiers for the new WiFi + cellular
iPad Pros and it’s apparently using a T8132 chip. However, T8132
is not the identifier for the M3 chip which is T8122.
In fact, based on the pattern that the M series chips have been
following, it seems like it’s the M4 chip.
This was exactly right. It was also two weeks before Mark Gurman’s “I’m hearing there is a strong possibility that the chip in the new iPad Pro will be the M4, not the M3” eye-opener in his Power On column.