“Apple’s overseas manufacturing partner Foxconn is reportedly expected to ship an enormous 20 million iPad 2 units to Apple in this quarter, setting the company up to once again break sales records,” Katie Marsal reports for AppleInsider.
“If Foxconn meets that estimate, it would represent 60 percent sequential growth in shipments, according to DigiTimes,” Marsal reports. “iPad 2 orders are expected to be a major source of growth for the China-based operation, though Foxconn declined to comment on any specific clients.”
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Marsal reports, “To put the numbers in perspective, during its last fiscal quarter, Apple announced it had shipped a record 9.25 million iPad 2 units, which was a 183 percent increase over the year-ago quarter. Apple’s figures represent the total number of units actually shipped, rather than the number of iPads built and supplied by Foxconn.”
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