TAIPEI -- Foxconn has landed a contract to build the next-generation Apple iMac.

Digitimes is reporting Apple chose Foxconn over Quanta to produce some 800,000 units per month of the all-in-one PC.

Foxconn is also reportedly in the running to nab a deal with Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 smartphone. Other companies still bidding for the program include Pegatron, the manufacturing arm of Asus, and a third undisclosed firm.

The Xperia X1 contractor, HTC, is out of the running, the report claimed,.