Apple orders additional 1 million iPad touchscreens per month

“Cando, a subsidiary of AU Optronics, 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,” Susie Pan and Yvonne Yu report for DigiTimes.

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“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,” Pan and Yu report.

Pan and Yu report, “The company noted that the 4.5G line will start volume production of several products with sizes ranging from 10- to 12-inch, mainly for medium-size capacitive touch panels for tablet PCs.”

Full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]