Apple expected to ship 10 million iPhones until the end of this quarter

20th December, 2009 by adina
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Thanks to a rush of orders with chip manufacturers, Apple could be able to ship more than 10 million iPhones this quarter, according to a study from the Taiwanese Marketing Intelligence & Consulting Institute. The analyst group estimates that the deliveries of chips required for smartphones increased by 30.9 percent from spring to summer. Much of them are expected to be reflected in iPhone shipments queued for the fall. Apple has shipped about 7.4 million iPhones during this summer, but the handsets were not sufficient for the high demand that produced international shortages.

The 10 million-iPhone prediction for this quarter is rather optimistic if it were to trust North American analysts who estimated between 8 and 9 million iPhones shipped from October to December. Whether or not Apple will reach the 10 million sales until the end of the quarter is hard to say, as Research in Motion itself has shipped 8.3 million BlackBerries this summer and is also waiting for the holidays to reach a peak of sales.

Not everything is attributed to Apple. Infineon’s baseband chips as well as the ARM processors of Samsung have been pushed by iPhones, while Qualcomm was helped by several new Android handsets as well as the Palm Pixi. Another well represented processor is Snapdragon that equipped devices like the Acer Liquid, LG IQ and HTC HD2. The OMAP processors of Texas Instruments have found their place in the Palm Pre. Later designs, such as the 3430 and 3630 use the faster architecture ARM Cortex-A8.


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