Digitimes, the website that has been reporting about various manufacturing partners for upcoming Apple tablet for past one year has now posted that Innolux and not Wintek will be the initial supplier of touch panels for the tablet. Innolux is the panel making subsidiary of Foxconn Group, which will be the manufacturer of the tablet.

According to the report, Apple has been trying to strengthen the glass of the 10-inch panel for the tablet and is forced to delay the launch until first-quarter of 2010. Foxconn’s subsidiary G-Tech Optoelectronics will now provide a glass strengthening process for the device. Like many other news websites, Digitimes believes that Apple will announce the tablet in January of 2010 with mass shipments to start in March or April, based on analysis of the shipping schedules of Apple’s upstream component partners.

Rumors about Apple tablet have grown very strong for past few days, which is normally an indication that Apple is preparing to introduce a new product very soon.