On Tuesday, Apple revealed the latest tablet in its iPad Mini lineup, featuring the most powerful performance yet, thanks to the A17 Pro chip under the hood.
Today, Apple unveiled its latest iPad Mini, powered by the A17 Pro chipset. The new device boasts a faster CPU and GPU, along with a Neural Engine that’s twice as fast as the previous-generation iPad Mini. It also supports Apple Intelligence, which was introduced at the Apple Keynote 2024. Apple Intelligence is a user-friendly personal intelligence system that understands context from an individual standpoint to deliver relevant and helpful performance, all while maintaining a strong focus on user privacy.
Apple’s Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, Bob Borchers, said, “iPad Mini appeals to a wide range of users and has been built for Apple Intelligence, delivering intelligent new features that are powerful, personal, and private.” He added, “With the powerful A17 Pro chip, faster connectivity, and support for Apple Pencil Pro, the new iPad Mini delivers the full iPad experience in our most portable design at an incredible value,” highlighting the strengths of the new device.
New iPad Mini Key Features
- A 6-core CPU — two performance cores and four efficiency cores — A17 Pro delivers a 30 percent boost in CPU performance over its predecessor.
- A 5-core GPU improvement delivers a 25% jump over the previous generation.
- For gamers, the new iPad mini brings true-to-life gaming with hardware-accelerated ray tracing — a 4x faster option than software-based ray tracing — as well as Dynamic Caching support and hardware-accelerated mesh shading.
- The first set of Apple Intelligence features will be available this month with the new update to iPadOS 18.1, and the new iPad mini is capable of deploying these features (with additional functionality launching over the next few months).
- Complete functionality with Apple Pencil Pro allows users to edit with pinpoint precision, and in tandem with the A17 Pro chip, allowing users to fly through tasks with nifty shortcuts directly on the pencil.
- The iPad mini has four distinct colourways, including blue, purple, starlight, and space grey for user personalization.
The new iPad Mini, featuring the A17 Pro chipset, is available starting today on the Apple website, with pricing starting at $679.
