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After the iPad met with an official release date, the rumors about its manufacturing delayed kind of died down. Not completely, but close enough. And now we’re looking at something completely different. In fact, these numbers are pretty big, and we’re hoping that if they are indeed the case, the demand for the Apple tablet will match the production. We wouldn’t want a warehouse somewhere in California to be filled with tablets, wasting away.

According to analyst Craig Berger of FBR Capital, it seems all the heresy about iPad manufacturing delays were just a false alarm, and that there was nothing to them. As it stands, Berger estimates that Apple is right on track to build 5 million iPads by the end of the first half of 2010. With estimates that Apple will sell anywhere between 1 and 4 million tablets, it seems that an extra million might be the best way to handle it.

Whether or not there ever really was a delay in the manufacturing isn’t important anymore. The only way it will be, is if we get some hard information on it, and we find out something that we didn’t know before. Until then, it’s simply word-of-mouth and nothing more. More rumors. Considering that we’re just under a month away from all getting our hands on the iPad ourselves, let’s move on from the rumors, and start looking forward to the real deal, shall we?

[via Barrons]