RIM PlayBook to benefit Quanta and Foxlink
Yenting Chen, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Thursday 7 April 2011]
As Research In Motion (RIM) is set to launch its PlayBook tablet PC on April 19 in the US and Canada priced at US$499.99, its upstream assembly partner Quanta Computer and connector supplier Foxlink are both expected to benefit, according to market watchers.
The market watchers pointed out that Quanta is currently picking up it pace for the device’s shipments to RIM as Quanta internally sees the device as one of the major tablet PC orders for 2011.
Sources from touch screen panel makers also pointed out that PlayBook shipments were postponed for about a month from the original schedule due to a delay in software testing as well as shortage of touch panels because Apple already booked up most of the available capacity.
Foxlink has also recently started mass shipping its connectors to RIM for the PlayBook. Foxlink is also a connector supplier for iPad 2, the sources added.
This shows how remarkably good Apple is on planning for the future. Well played.
