Plans can go wrong. The unforeseen affects even those who seem to have everything more than controlled. A fire at LG Display's panel production plant could delay iPad 5 release date. The Korean company is one of the main suppliers of panels for the LCD screens of Apple tablets, as well as its MacBook.
Last week a fire destroyed the plant of Heesung Electronics, the company subcontracted by LG Display to manufacture the panels that it then supplies to those in Cupertino. The factory has been completely razed and could not be operational for 6 months. Those with the bitten apple can't wait that long, and they can't turn all the work off to SHARP, their other supplier.
Right now, the company's Chief Operating Officer, Jeffrey Williams, Tim Cook's right-hand man, is at the forefront of the situation and looking for solutions. One of them would be entrust the work of manufacturing the screens to Samsung again. The mortal enemy of the American company has seen how in recent years all its component manufacturing agreements have been extinguished or not renewed. They don't make chips or screens anymore.
The possible negotiation of the terms to help Apple get out of a really tight situation can be, to say the least, interesting. A source assures that a first emergency meeting took place in the United States on April 11. Keep in mind that there are not so many companies that guarantee quality panels that backlight their tablet screens.
It is not the first time that we have seen a similar situation. In 2011 there was already a fire in one of Foxconn's plants in China that made everyone nervous but was solved with solvency by the then Head of Operations, Tim Cook.
This information serves to further support the opinion of those analysts who are betting on the arrival of the iPad 5 in October and not in June. Lately some images have appeared from its casing, but without screens there are no tablets.
Source: iDownloadBlog