The new iPad will also boast a new A5X chip, which promises four times the performance of the Tegra 3 processor that powers many of the Android tablets in the market, thanks to the introduction of a new quad-core graphics processor.

Forrestor analyst Ted Schadler for Computerworld UK that this will greatly aid the use of enterprise applications on the iPad, which are often resource hungry.

"With 11 percent of employees globally using tablets today, developers have powerful incentives to port business apps to touchscreen tablets. Already developers have built 200,000 apps for iPad. With a faster network connection and more power in the touchscreen interface, the new iPad can take on more business workloads: graphics, video, browser apps," he said.

"And some of that network speed and graphics power will be diverted to translate keyboard/mouse applications to even better virtual machine interfaces from Citrix, VMware, and others," he added.

"The list of software-as-a-service and software vendors delivering touchscreen business apps is also rapidly expanding and ready to take advantage of the faster network".