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Title: Kuo: New AirTag Likely to Enter Mass Production in Late 2024 Post by: HCK on August 04, 2023, 04:05:03 pm Kuo: New AirTag Likely to Enter Mass Production in Late 2024
Apple suppliers will likely begin mass production of a second-generation AirTag in the fourth quarter of 2024, according to new information (https://twitter.com/mingchikuo/status/1686754705693888512) shared by Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The current AirTag launched in April 2021 and is priced at $29. (https://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2021/04/AirTag-and-Lavender-iPhone.jpg) Kuo believes the new AirTag will have better integration with Apple's upcoming Vision Pro headset (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-vision-pro/), as part of a spatial computing ecosystem, but he did not provide any additional details or reveal any other potential new features for the item tracker. The current AirTag is equipped with an Apple-designed U1 chip for Ultra Wideband, enabling a Precision Finding feature that displays the distance and direction to an AirTag. Kuo already said iPhone 15 models will likely have an upgraded Ultra Wideband chip (https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/19/iphone-15-new-u1-chip-vision-pro-headset/), so perhaps Apple is planning an upgraded U2 chip for both iPhones and the AirTag. Based on this timeframe, a new AirTag is still over a year away from launching, so additional rumors about the accessory are likely to surface over the coming months.<div class="linkback">Tags: Ming-Chi Kuo (https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ming-chi-kuo/), AirTags (https://www.macrumors.com/guide/airtags/)</div><div class="linkback">Related Forum: AirTags (https://forums.macrumors.com/forums/airtags.232)</div> This article, "Kuo: New AirTag Likely to Enter Mass Production in Late 2024 (https://www.macrumors.com/2023/08/02/kuo-new-airtag-production-late-2024/)" first appeared on MacRumors.com (https://www.macrumors.com) Discuss this article (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/kuo-new-airtag-likely-to-enter-mass-production-in-late-2024.2397564/) in our forums Source: Kuo: New AirTag Likely to Enter Mass Production in Late 2024 (https://www.macrumors.com/2023/08/02/kuo-new-airtag-production-late-2024/) |