LG leaks Apple's plans to launch an 8K iMac this year

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Samantha Murphy
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It appears that LG just revealed Apple's plans to release an 8K iMac later this year.

A press release on company's website states that Apple will get a much higher-resolution display in 2015. The mention of a "next-generation of high-resolution 8K" display was first spotted by tech site AppleInsider.

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LG's press release was focused on the future of 8K, which has a 7,680 x 4,320 pixel resolution -- four times the resolution of a 4K screen and 4 times the number of pixels. The company mentioned a launch in Japan, an 8K service demonstration at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in Korea and, of course, Apple.

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"Apple has also announced that they will release the ‘iMac 8K’ with a super-high resolution display later this year," the press release read.

Curiously, however, no such announcement has yet been made. Apple just launched its 27-inch iMac with a 5K display in October, so it seems unlikely that the company would upgrade to a newer display so soon.

Unless the statement was a mistake, however, it's easy to assume that Apple is already working with LG to outfit its next-generation iMac with the company's high-resolution 8K display.

The new iMac is rumored to debut this fall. Apple did not immediately reply to Mashable's request for comment.

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