PC World is reporting on comments made by Tom Mainelli, an IDC analyst, who claims that the third-generation, not the upcoming second-generation iPad will have a 2048X1536 high resolution screen. This third-generation iPad would be expected sometime in 2012.
“I think the Digitimes story probably got the resolution right, but the iPad version wrong,” Mainelli told PCWorld via e-mail. “Our sources say Apple has requested that manufacturers begin work on displays with that resolution for the iPad 3.”
“I don’t believe anybody is ready to produce that resolution in volumes at this point. And Apple is going to require huge volumes for the iPad 2,” he added.
There have been a myriad of reports in recent weeks and days that suggest that the next-generation iPad, which is expected to be released this Spring, will have a “Retina” display. Now, the term “Retina” display has made the situation complicated. Does “Retina” refer to a pixel density of 330px as seen on the iPhone 4? Or does it refer to the point in which pixels disappear to the human eye? If it’s the latter, the next-gen iPad wouldn’t need as great of a pixel density as the iPhone, seeing as it’s held farther away from the eyes, and thus takes fewer pixels to achieve the same affect.
But more than the manufacturing of these high-density, the biggest hurdle seems to be the amount of RAM required to power such a screen. Right now, the minimum 1GB of RAM would be cost-prohibitive. By 2012 however, the device should be cheap enough to put into production.
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