Ever since Apple introduced the iPad a few years back, the Taiwanese-based manufacturer Foxconn has cornered the job of supplying the Cupertino-based firm with its iconic tablet.
Ever since Apple introduced the iPad a few years back, the Taiwanese-based manufacturer Foxconn has cornered the job of supplying the Cupertino-based firm with its iconic tablet. However, a news report from Taiwan suggests that Pegatron has been contracted to provide 50 to 60 percent of the rumored iPad Mini.
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The Economic Daily News claimsthat Pegatron has already started cranking out the supposed 7.85-inch cut-size iPad, just a few weeks before its rumored debut in October.
Pegatron was originally a spin-off company of Asustek, a major Taiwanese computer maker. It has operations in several parts of the world, three of which are located in mainland China, and the remainder of which are scattered across North America, South America and Europe.
The newspaper also asserted that Pegatron will step in as an iPhone 5 builder later this year as part of Apple’s target of shipping 53 million units of its latest smartphone by the time the year ends.
This isn’t the first time this year that we’ve heard of Apple’s efforts to diversify its supply chain to deal with the traditionally high demand for its products, while ensuring that there are no production hiccups that could jeopardize its business plans. There have been reports that Apple has shuffled around the display and memory suppliers for the iPhone 5.
At the same time, with the addition of the iPad Mini to its already packed lineup of contract-built products for Apple, Foxconn’s plants could very well have problems fulfilling all of Apple’s orders, forcing the Cupertino-based firm to look for some alternatives.