Taiwan's Digitimes reports that significant orders for PS3 components have been placed, enough to make a million PS3s the third quarter alone- almost double of what was produced during the second quarter.

Indicative of a PS3 Slim, or is Sony expecting a increased demand for PS3s? If I had a beard right now, I would stroke it.

Taiwan OEMs recently have placed significant orders for key Sony PS3 components from IC distributors, with average monthly volume enough for making one million units of the games console in the third quarter, double the average in the second quarter, according to sources with IC distributors.

The sources estimated the growth momentum will remain strong through October thanks to the year-end holiday demand.

PS3's chipset is provided by Renesas Technology, and supply is falling short of the strong demand currently, the sources noted.

Sales of time division synchronizers used in PS3 have also increased, and shipments are expected to top four million units per month in the third quarter, added the sources.

Existence via digitimes.com »