Co-created by Google and Asustek Computer, the second-generation Nexus 7 will start shipping the end of the second quarter and is expected to hit market shelves in the third quarter, according to supply-chain sources. The new tablet will feature a 7-inch low-temperature poly-silicon (LTPS) panel, produced mainly by AU Optronics (AUO), the sources claimed.

　　In response, AUO said the company does not comment on any particular customers and orders.

　　Earlier reports indicated that about one million units of the second-generation Nexus 7 will be shipped in May. Shipments will total around eight million units in all of 2013, the reports quoted sources from the upstream supply chain as saying.

　　Earlier in 2013, Asustek remarked that its tablet shipments for the year would top 12 million units compared to the 6.3 million tablets the company shipped in 2012.