American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu, who has a "Buy" rating on the stock, said that he believes the company's release of its new iPod nano and widescreen video iPod may not happen in the third and fourth quarters, respectively, as he'd previously anticipated.

"For the nanos, we now anticipate the December quarter (release) as more likely as we believe the delay is related to an SOC (system-on-a-chip) change from PortalPlayer Inc.," Wu wrote in a note. "On the widescreen video iPod, we are picking up that battery life continues to be the key gating factor that could delay its release until the first-half of 2007 from the fourth quarter."

News source: Chron.com