New iPad 3 contract goes to Pegatron, not Foxconn [updated]

By on Jul 28, 2011 at 3:50 PM
Tablets July 28, 2011

Pegatron has been awarded a new contract to build Apple’s next-generation iPad tablets, Taiwan Economic News reports. 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. 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. Pegatron is seemingly working hard to increase its production share of Apple devices, however; the Taiwan-based manufacturer reportedly also won an order from Apple to manufacture a total of 15 million iPhone 5 handsets. While Apple is shaking up its manufacturing partners according to the report, it will reportedly retain the majority of its component suppliers including TPK Holdings (touch panels), Simplo Technology and Dynapack International Technology (batteries), Largan Precision (camera lenses) and Foxconn Technology (outer casings).

Updated to reflect changes in source report.

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  • http://briefmobile.com/ Korey Nicholson

    No more suicides?

    • Bringit

      That Charlie Brown shirt you are wearing was also made in China.

      • http://briefmobile.com/ Korey Nicholson

        Way off, it is a Gator polo made by Press Box in Pakistan.

      • Bringit

        Yeeaahh – there are no sweatshops in Pakistan.  Bin Laden was not hiding there either.  

    • Anonymous

      What Android phone do you use that has no parts made from the sweatshops of China should one choose to buy it?

      • http://briefmobile.com/ Korey Nicholson

        Who said I have an Android device?

      • Anonymous

        Maybe you do or you don’t. So what phone do you have? I think it would help a great many people to know that there are smartphones that will have no link whatsoever to Chinese manufactured parts.

      • Anonymous

        You look like you own one.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FTS5IZP2X3V2MJ3EUCHANXHSTY Jomer

        how many briefs do you have? LOL!

        You deny having an android phone?

      • sirpaul

        The BlackBerry is manufactured in Canada…sure parts are made in China, but parts usually require lots of machinery and not much sweatshop labour, whereas manufacturing (basically putting together) a phone does.

    • J. Williams

      Ugly comment.

  • Anonymous

    The iPad looks more on the thick side in that photo. And I thought it was the “iPad HD”, and NOT the iPad 3??

    • http://briefmobile.com/ Korey Nicholson

      That picture is the iPad 2…

      • Anonymous

        I know that, I have one. It’s thin in real life, but looks thicker in the picture…

    • http://www.facebook.com/applelover Tim Meesseman

      Technically, it isn’t the iPad 3 or the iPad HD. Not only is the existence of this device a complete rumor in the first place, the name of it won’t be confirmed until/unless Steve Jobs himself announces it.

      • Anonymous

        Truth. But Apple vaporware is discussed on the regular, everywhere… it has to be true!

        /sarcasm.

  • Anonymous

    Pegatron is an awesome name. 

    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR6HpRLyzMY Walter Sobchak

      Almost as good as penetrode

  • bobbo987

    The report doesn’t say it’s an exclusive contract.  Pegatron would just be a second supplier, as has been rumored for a while now.

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      • Anonymous

        iPad 3 will rule the world.

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  • sirpaul

    So…Pegatron suicides now?

  • Anonymous

    Pegatron sounds like a Transformer that turns into a horse!

  • Briancarr21

    Another copycat article by the talentless asshat Zack Epstein. Write an original article Zack you hack.

  • http://phonecan.com Epik

    ALL HAIL PEGATRON!

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    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR6HpRLyzMY Walter Sobchak

      Anyone ever check out the website this dude spams?
      We should go spam or ddos it!

  • Anonymous

    Ha ha FUCK YOU TERRI GOU YOU FILTHY GREEDY CUNT! I hope it’s you whose next to commit suicide

  • Anonymous

    Hey Apple, you have enough capital why not have them made completely in the USA! 

    • marK

      stock would drop on shrinking margins – they’re a corporation, remember.

  • Shanghai Dan

    Wait, iPads and iPhones aren’t made by Apple?  You mean that there isn’t an Apple iPhone, but a Hon Hai iPhone, a Pegatron iPhone, an [insertnamehere] iPhone?

    • Anonymous

      Welcome to the modern era dude

  • SeanJSawyer

    Does the iPhone 5 / iPad 3 still offer the same gorilla glass technology, made by Corning Glass inc.?

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