Four million Amazon tablets will sell in 2011

Amazon's Android-based tablet may be coming in August, with projected sales of four million units this year.

Taiwanese component manufacturers told DigiTimes that the tablet launch would 'meet the peak sales period prior to Thanksgiving in the US and the year-end holidays in the US and Europe, the sources pointed out.'

The processors will be provided by Texas Instruments, while Wintek will manufacture the touch panels, ILI Technology to supply LCD driver ICs and Quanta Computer responsible for assembly.

The manufacturers are also predicting 700,000-800,000 of the tablets will ship every month.

The Amazon Tablet: Everything you need to know

We previously reported the Amazon tablet's launch date would be Christmas, but now it seems that date has been brought forward.

The interesting thing to note is that Amazon is planning to launch more than one Android device. In fact, the company could have a whole fleet of Android Ice Cream Sandwich devices planned over the coming months.

The Amazon tablets are said to run on dual core CPUs, with at least one 7-inch and one 10-inch tablet in the works.

The tablets could run on Android Honeycomb, although it seems more likely Ice Cream Sandwich will be the OS of choice, as the platform is due to launch in the same period.

All Amazon tablets will feature Amazon's music streaming service, with the Kindle Store and Amazon App Store will come preinstalled as standard.