Apple refreshes tablet line-up with iPad, iPad Air upgrades: Details here

Apple on Tuesday refreshed its tablet line-up by bringing its long-awaited upgrade of the iPad and iPad Air. The 8th generation iPad gets performance improvement as part of this upgrade, besides other seasonal improvements. The iPad Air, on the other hand, gets several new upgrades, including the industry-first 5nm process-based A14 Bionic chip that powers it.

The eighth-generation iPad is powered by the A12 Bionic chip, which is touted be up to twice as fast as the top-selling Windows laptop, up to three times faster than the top-selling Android tablet and up to six times faster than the top-selling Chromebook. The iPad supports Apple Pencil (1st generation). It has gigabit-class LTE connectivity and is touted to pack an all-day battery back-up.