Industry insider DigiTimes is reporting Quanta Computer has recently received OEM orders from Amazon for a purported tablet. The Amazon tablet will receive full support from Taiwan-based electrophoretic display (EPD) maker E Ink Holdings (EIH) for its touch panel as well as providing its Fringe Field Switching (FFS) technology. Word on the street is monthly orders are expected to reach 700,000 to 800,000 units with shipments beginning in the second half of 2011.
Due to luke-warm Amazon Kindle sales outside of North America and Europe, the company will reportedly further reduce the price of its e-reader. Part two of the attack will be releasing a tablet. With a firm grasp in software, thanks in part to its own Android App Store, Amazon believes it has the resources to do battle with Apple’s iPad 2. For now, all of the companies mentioned in the DigiTimes report declined to comment, so please take today’s news with a grain of salt (for now).
On the plus side, Quanta Computer is currently the tablet PC OEM partner of RIM and Sony, boosting our level of confidence surround today’s claims.
via DigiTimes
