Overview
- Mark Gurman reports Apple has a vapor chamber on the iPad Pro roadmap, with integration as soon as the next refresh on the company’s roughly 18‑month cycle, pointing to spring 2027.
- The update is expected to coincide with an M6 chip widely reported to use TSMC’s 2‑nanometer process for gains in efficiency and performance.
- Apple introduced vapor chamber cooling on the iPhone 17 Pro line, where it helped maintain performance under heavy loads such as gaming and video editing.
- Recent iPad Pros use enhanced copper heat spreading, yet reviews and teardowns note thermal limits during prolonged demanding tasks that the new system is intended to alleviate.
- Outlets say Apple is likely to position the cooling upgrade as a Pro‑level differentiator, with some speculation it could later reach other passively cooled devices like MacBook Air.