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Apple iPad mini (A20 Pro) goes on sale at 5,499 yuan with AI-focused A20 Pro
Apple's iPad mini (A20 Pro), often called iPad mini 8, is now available starting at 5,499 yuan. Its A20 Pro chip adds neural accelerators in each GPU core for Apple Intelligence and AI workloads.
Apple's iPad mini (A20 Pro) went on sale on November 6 with a starting price of 5,499 yuan, IT之家 reports. After the national purchase subsidy, the starting price comes to about 4,999 yuan, and with an education discount it can drop further to about 4,599 yuan.
The new model is offered in midnight and starlight colors. It is 14 percent thinner and 13 percent lighter than the previous generation. Its Ultra Retina XDR display uses OLED technology, with peak brightness of 1,200 nits, P3 wide color support and a contrast ratio of 2,000,000:1. It does not support ProMotion, and the 256GB and 512GB models can optionally be configured with nano-texture glass.
For performance, the iPad mini (A20 Pro) uses an A20 Pro chip whose packaging approach borrows from the M series chips. Each GPU core includes a new neural accelerator to speed up Apple Intelligence and various AI tasks. Compared with the iPad mini 7, CPU performance is up to 1.6 times faster and GPU performance is up to 2.7 times faster.