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Asustek said its Eee Pad Transformer was selling like hotcakes in the US on channels including Amazon.com Inc and BestBuy. The company now expects total shipments of the Transformer tablet to exceed 300,000 units for the quarter.

“We have been resolving component shortages for the past month [in the wake of Japan’s double disasters on March 11] and volumes of the Transformer will pick up soon,” CEO Jerry Shen (沈振來) told an investor conference.

Daily production output of the Transformer tablet is set to hit 100,000 units from next week onwards after steady component supplies were secured, he said, adding that daily output this week was 50,000 units.
Asustek expects to ship more than 300,000 Transformers this quarter.

“The strength and user experience of this product will help us achieve the shipment goal,” he said.

The company said its first tablet is currently the top seller in the tablet category on Amazon.com, dwarfing Motorola Inc’s Xoom and Samsung Electronics Inc’s Galaxy Tab.
Asustek is betting on the Transformer — a 10-inch Android 3.0 machine with a detachable keyboard docking station — as its anchor tablet model.
Development of the second and third generation of the Transformer has begun as Asustek aims to sell 2 million tablets by the end of the year.