With early morning lines outside the Apple Store still 50 man deep, it’s pretty clear that Apple’s had a hard time supplying the demand for the iPad 2… but a new manufacturer joining the iPad 2 supply change might soon help matters.
According to Digitimes, Apple is now testing a new LED backlight maker called Everlight Electronics in order to expand their component supply for the iPad 2.
Presumably, the LED backlights in questions are the companie’s 2,000 millicandela backlights, which the company has been shipping to other Taiwan-based tablet makers for the last month.
Will the new Everlight Electronics LED backlight, will the iPad 2 get any less scarce… and will it be any less prone to the bleeding issues of previous backlights? Time will tell.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
2 responses to “Apple Tests New LED Backlight For iPad 2”
i want full LED backlight !