Apple brings the M3 chip to its iPad Air
The iPad continues to straddle that awkward place between laptop and smartphone, with Apple updating its iPad Air with an M3 processor and Apple Intelligence.
The iPad is an exceptional piece of hardware, but the arrival of the latest iPad Air update just reinforces that its a device straddling two categories: laptops and phones.
The big update for the iPad Air is an update to the M3 processor we first saw back in the 2023 MacBook Pros and later dropped into the 2024 MacBook Air.
It's a powerful processor that was running Apple's top of the line laptop less than two years ago. Now it's in both the 11-inch and the 13-inch screen sizes, which were previously running Apple's M1 chipset.
