DigiTimes is reporting that Apple will be adding an additional touch panel supplier to help address what is believed by many to be the main bottleneck for iPad production.
Cando, a subsidiary of AU Optronics (AUO), is scheduled to start shipping 9.7-inch touch sensors for Apple’s iPad from its newly reformed 4.5G production line in September-October 2010.
Overall output of the newly reformed 4.5G plant will be mainly for iPad touch sensors with a monthly capacity of almost one million units.
As has been reported here before, iPad supply restraints have eased up greatly in the last few weeks. So much so, that Apple is now planning on expanding the iPad’s market to China and five Latin American countries this Friday, September 17th. Best Buy will also be carrying the device in all of it’s retail stores, and the iPad is even expected to make it’s way to Target retail stores sometime later this year.
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