Has Apple thrown 3 million iPad 3 orders?

While the outside world has speculated about Apple's massive reduction in order orders for the iPad 4 in the fourth quarter, today's upstream supply chain in Taiwan has again reported that Apple has already placed orders for 3 million iPads for the next generation.

According to insiders, in fact, in October, Samsung, LG and Sharp had already received orders for 1 million Retina screens from Apple’s next-generation iPad, and now they have increased their orders by 2 million.

In addition, he also revealed that Taiwan’s two major touch-screen module makers, Chiptronic and Shenghua Technologies, will begin shipping their products to Apple from mid-November to December, and Foxconn will start in January 2012. Assemble a new generation of iPad.

At the same time, the recent US technology blog iLounge reported that in order to accommodate the dual lamp system used by the high score screen, the iPad 3 will be slightly thicker than the iPad 2 by 0.7 mm.