For those who’ve been anxiously ready for a brand new iPad mini and hoping it is going to fold, now we have some dangerous information. Based on well-respected analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the iPad mini 7 received’t be a lot totally different than the iPad mini 6.

In a brief Twitter thread Tuesday, Kuo dumps some chilly water on any lingering hopes that Apple could also be engaged on a folding iPad mini for launch in 2025 as a result of worth: “A foldable iPad can have a markedly larger worth than an iPad mini, so such a alternative is just not affordable.” That is smart, as foldable telephones with smaller screens at the moment value nicely over $1,000 and the iPad mini begins at $499.

He doesn’t provide a lot in the way in which of particulars on what the iPad mini can have apart from to say its new processor will likely be “the primary promoting level.” Relying on the timeline for launch, that could possibly be the A16 or A17 chip. It’s unlikely that the iPad mini will get an M1 or M2 chip as a result of thermal constraints.

Kuo says a brand new iPad mini isn’t due till the tip of 2023 or early 2024, which might be a full two years between releases.

Apart from the brand new chip, it’s unclear what new options the iPad mini may carry. When the M2 iPad Professional launched in October, the one function to talk of apart from a brand new processor was Apple Pencil Hover and Wi-Fi 6E, two options that might come to the iPad mini. Apple may additionally presumably develop Stage Supervisor to the iPad mini, which at the moment requires an iPad Professional with an A12, M1, or M2 processor or M1 iPad Air.