“Pegatron has been awarded a new contract to build Apple’s next-generation iPad tablets,” Zach Epstein reports for BGR, citing a Taiwan Economic News report.
“According to the report, Pegatron underbid Hon Hai for a new contract to manufacture the iPad 3, which will become available some time near the Thanksgiving holiday according to an earlier report,” Epstein reports. “Hon Hai, owner of infamous Apple manufacturing partner Foxconn, manufactures Apple’s current-generation iPad 2 tablet along with a number of other Apple products.”
Epstein reports, “While Apple is shaking up its manufacturing partners according to the report, it will reportedly retain the majority of its component suppliers.”
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