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19 March 2024

Mark the date(s) for iPad and iPhone 5 launch

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By Vicky Kapur

All ye Apple fans, there’s news for you. Well, alleged news or, in true Apple tradition, rumours.

Launch dates – at least months – have been supposedly scheduled for Apple’s devices-in-the-pipeline. The Cupertino-based tech giant may launch a 7-inch iPad mini in August, iPhone 5 in September and 10-inch iPad in the fourth quarter, if rumours are to be believed.

Apple has reportedly placed orders for the next-gen iPhone and iPad at Taiwan-based Pegatron Technology, a global electronics manufacturing firm.

Citing Taiwan-based supply chain sources, DigiTimes is reporting that Pegatron Technology has landed orders for Apple’s sixth-generation iPhone, which the website claims will be launched in September.

Pegatron is currently one of Apple’s OEMs (original equipment manufacturers), and the Taipei-headquartered firm handles orders for both the iPhone 4S and the new iPad.

Unnamed Taiwanese sources cited by the site maintain that Pegatron has expanded its capacity and staffing in order to cope with additional orders from Apple.

Separately, the DigiTimes report also claimed that the Taiwan-based motherboard manufacturer Foxconn will be churning out Apple’s anticipated 7-inch iPad when it unveils in August.

Apple’s largest overseas manufacturing partner, even Foxconn has been undertaking a huge expansion exercise, with the firm reportedly hiring an additional 20,000 staffers to meet Apple’s enhanced orders. Moreover, it will today hold a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the construction of a new 10,000-square-meter operational headquarters in Shanghai, China, scheduled to be completed in 2015.

Additionally, rumours are that the technology giant will be unveiling its 10" iPad later in the fourth quarter of this year.