United Kingdom, March 5 -- Apple has announced the new iPad A16 and iPad Air.

The first tablet - which will cost $329 - will be doubling its storage and will come with 128GB of memory instead of 64GB, which has been used as the base storage on the entry-level iPad since the 9th Generation iPad in 2021.

The new iPad will also get the more efficient A16 Bionic chipset, which was first introduced with the 2022 iPhone 14 Pro and will boast up to 50 per cent better performance compared to the previous 10th Generation iPad, which came with the A14 Bionic chip.

Apple has also upgraded Apple Pencil support for both the Lightning and USB-C variants of the styluses with the iPad A16, with the second generation stylus now being able to magnetical...