Holiday Plans Apple Foxconn Increase Ipad Production Capacity
Apple’s iPad production is nearing three million units every month in the lead-in to Christmas, with manufacturing partner, Foxconn, opening aditional capacity in its new plants in Chengdu, China. The new production lines are limited at present, churning out 10,000 iPads each day, but the capacity has been bought onstream to satisfy demand, Digitimes reports. “Foxconn had previously refuted claims that the company would establish iPad production lines at the plants in Chengdu, but related component players have pointed out that Foxconn already started shipping iPads from the site in November and expected the site to become a major supply base starting the first quarter of 2011....