“In order to secure sufficient supply of touch panels used in the iPad and iPhone, Apple has talked with Taiwan-based makers, considering some room for them to hike quotes, according to these makers,” Yenting Chen and Yvonne Yu report for DigiTimes.
Such a move would “increase pressure to other vendors for tablet PCs and smartphone, touch panel makers believed,” Chen and Yu report. “In order to achieve its internal shipment goal of 40 million units of iPad in 2011, Apple has booked over 60% of the total touch panel capacity.”
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