Ever since the announcement of the MacBook Air in Tuesday’s keynote many have been wondering, does the SSD give a major performance booth, who’s manufacturing the units and what processor is used?

Well finally the latter two questions appear to have been answered, DigiTimes notes that Quanta is manufacturing the MacBook Air units.

Apple, which has just introduced its new MacBook Air, will outsource corresponding assembly orders to Quanta, according to industry sources. Total sales contribution from Apple is expected to surpass 20% this year on an estimated volume of 6-8 million units. Quanta is expected to be the key notebook OEM for Apple in 2008 as the spin-off at Asustek Computer has prompted Apple to shift its orders to Quanta.

AnandTech has given the processor used in the MacBook Air an in-depth study, at first they emailed Intel and Apple PR but as usual received the usual PR response.

With further investigation, the MacBook Air’s processor is actually based on Intel’s 65 nanometer (65nm) Merom architecture with an 800MHz bus, first released in May of last year

“The MacBook Air uses the Intel Core 2 Duo Processor and Intel 965GMS chipset with integrated [graphics] using a new miniaturized package technology. This new CPU and chipset allows for approximately 60% reduction in total footprint,” Intel explained to the the tech site.