The two leading Taiwan ODM handset makers – Compal Communications and Arima Communications – are expected to have mixed shipment performance in the first quarter of 2008, with Compal likely to see a 8-18% sequential growth in shipments and Arima to suffer an on-quarter decline, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.
Handset shipments from Compal Communications are expected to top 13 million units in the January-March period of 2008, buoyed by shipments of handsets codenamed "Long Beach Island" to Motorola, indicated the paper. Monthly handset shipments from Arima, however, will total less than one million units in the first quarter of 2008, compared to a high of 1.2 million it shipped in October 2007, the paper added.
Article translated by Steve Shen
