The new MacBook - only $954.59!“Apple is on track to build 5 million iPads in the first half of 2010, according to FBR Capital chip analyst Craig Berger,” Eric Savitz reports for Barron’s.

“Berger, who tracks the chip industry, thinks many iPhone component suppliers will also sell into the iPad, including Infineon (IFX), Skyworks (SWKS), Triquint (TQNT), Broadcom (BRCM) and Texas Instruments (TXN),” Savitz reports. “Production in the 4-5 million unit range would ‘drive some material revenues’ for these companies, he says, ‘particularly BRCM.’”

Savitz reports, “Berger stresses that short-term fluctuations in Apple’s production orders ‘are not highly correlated’ with actual sales, due to inventory shifts up and down, the impact of new product launches and seasonal factors.”

Full article here.