Apple looking for LED back-light solutions for upcoming iPad 3 with Retina display

According to Digitimes, LED back-light unit (BLU) vendors have reportedly offered Apple two alternative backlight solutions for its next-generation iPad. The sources said that the single LED light bar for the iPad 2 (1024x768 resolution) displayisnt able to handle the upcoming iPad 3s retina display, and therefore the solution would either be using dual LED light bars or keep the light bar in a single-bar form factor but with two LED chips; the iPad 3 is expected to adopt LCD panels with resolutions higher than 2048x1536 pixels. TheApple iPad 3 is rumored tolaunch in March 2012 with a slimmer design and minor update.

Source: Digitimes