Many people were left without a shiny Asus Eee Pad Transformer upon launch day as Amazon and various online retailers’ stocks were voraciously depleted. Even going so far as to being unable to fulfill some pre-orders for customers who wanted both the tablet and keyboard dock.

There have been many theories across the Internet regarding the reason for the tablet’s supply shortage, ranging from simple unprecedented consumer demand to more complex component shortage and manufacturing quality control issues. Fortunately, Netbook News was able to get a statement from Asus’ Headquarters in Taipei on the exact reason for the Transformer’s low stock. They quote ASUSTek’s spokesperson David Chang in stating "It really depends on the demand. The current demand surpasses our expectations by far."

The company is currently ramping up production of the hot tablet, and expects 300,000 units to be made available for purchase at the end of June this year. Rumors of component shortages and quality control issues were not confirmed by the spokesperson.  The Asus spokesperson did; however, state that "If the demand continues to increase substantially then we will have to continue to ramp up production in order to fulfill our customers’ demand."

As more units start to hit the streets, will you be picking up your Asus Transformer?