It’s reported that Apple are set to ramp up the production on the iPad 3 from October with an eye for an early 2012 launch.

“Suppliers will ramp up production and try to improve the yield rate for the new iPad in the fourth quarter before its official launch in early 2012,” a source at a iPad component supplier told the Wall Street Journal.

Apple and iPad assembly company Hon Hai Precision Industry declined to comment when approached by WSJ.

The new iPad is expected to boost its display resolution up to a mighty 2048 by1536 compared with the 1024 by 768 in the iPad 2 -and