Component suppliers including touch panel and reinforced glass suppliers for the iPad are completing validation with Apple for the second-generation Apple tablet, says “DigiTimes” (http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100916PD215.html), quoting Taiwan-based component suppliers.
Apple is expected to launch the second-gen iPad in the first-quarter of 2011, the article says. Some folks had thought it might see the light of day in time for the holidays, but perhaps not.