3 Oct, 2007
Handset shipments from Arima Communications reached over one million units, buoyed by increasing shipments to Sony Ericsson and LG Electronics, according to estimates by Taiwan-based handset component makers.
Arima's third-quarter handset shipments totaled about 2.8 million units, compared to 1.78 million in the first quarter and 1.66 million in the second quarter, the sources estimated.
For the fourth quarter, Arima is expected to ship 4.0-4.5 million handsets, bringing the total shipments for all of 2007 to 10-11 million, the sources projected.
Sales of Sony Ericsson's T250s, of which the company is outsourcing production to Arima, are booming, and this has prompted Sony Ericsson to add four follow-up versions of the T250 in the fourth quarter, the sources noted.
Arima's handset shipments to LG are expected to top two million units in 2007 making the South Korea vendor the second largest client for Ariam, accounting for 20% of Arima's total handset shipments, said the sources.
Additionally, Arima has landed 2.5G handset orders from Sharp with shipments set to start in the first quarter of 2008.
