Lenovo Working on Quad-Core Tablet for Early 2012?

Pegatron Technology has supposedly received orders from Lenovo for a quad-core tablet set to go into production early next year.

ZoomUnnamed sources from the "upstream supply chain" claim that Pegatron Technology has received orders from Lenovo to produce a quad-core tablet. Although Pegatron later said it would not comment on matters concerning individual clients, the device is reportedly set to enter mass production after the Lunar New Year in January.

For Pegatron, a lot of potential business is riding on the Lenovo tablet. Originally the company was an upstream partner of Germany-based Medion. However Medion was aquired by Lenovo in early 2011, thus Pegatron was able to enter Lenovo's supply chain. If Pegatron performs admirably with the Lenovo tablet, then there's a good chance it will land notebook orders from Lenovo as well.

In addition to Lenovo, industry sources claim that Pegatron has received orders from Acer and Toshiba for 2012 although they don't go into further detail. DigiTimes reports that the company's 4Q profit will have a chance of reaching around $32.93 million USD (NT$1 billion), or an Earnings Per Share (EPS) of NT$0.4. Its EPS for the first three quarters of the year was negative NT$0.38.

Meanwhile Lenovo has managed to steal a sliver of tablet market share from Apple in China, coming in at a distant second. The company has reportedly saturated the Chinese market with almost 160,000 units in the second quarters alone, commanding a market share of 8.4-percent. The company has also managed to become the second largest PC company in the world, surpassing Dell and seating itself under HP.

"Lenovo has captured incredible marketplace momentum to surpass two competitors to capture the #2 spot in worldwide PCs over the span of just two quarters," said Lenovo CEO Yuanqing Yang. "This is the highest rank Lenovo has achieved in worldwide PC sales and, given the current competitive environment, positions the company as a strong challenger to ultimately become the global market leader."

Details surrounding Lenovo's upcoming quad-core tablet are unknown, but we're hoping to hear more about the gadget in a few weeks during CES 2012. However given Lenovo's close ties with Nvidia, there's a good chance the quad-core tablet will sport a Tegra 3 SoC. Guess we'll find out soon enough...