Foxconn, the maker of most of your Apple handheld devices have started shipping iPads from its new manufacturing facility at Chengdu, China. The Digitimes is reporting that they have started a single production line for the iPad at the Chengdu facility. This plant is currently capable of making over 300,000 iPads a month and will expand to over 50 production lines in the near future to produce a staggering 40 million iPads per year.

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