AppleInsider:

Industry sources told DigiTimes that the manufacturer is cutting back production lines for the PlayBook at a factory in Taiwan, offering preferential compensation to the roughly 1,000 workers who have been let go. Quanta confirmed the layoffs, but declined to provide further details.

I usually don’t put much weight behind DigiTimes reports, but this one seems solid, especially since the layoffs have been confirmed.

It seems reasonable that RIM would cut production considering it only shipped 200,000 PlayBooks last quarter. Even with price cuts coming, I would think that number would be about the same or worse in the current quarter.