MediaTek is expected to ship a total of 10 million units of its Android 2.1-enabled MT6516 smartphone solutions in December 2010 and January 2011, buoyed by strong demand from branded as well as white-box handset vendors in China, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.
Additionally, shipments of MediaTek's 2.5G/2.75G single-chip GSM/GPRS solution, the MT6253, topped 20 million units in November, said the paper, noting the company also plans to launch its entry-level solution, the MT6253D, to replace the MT6223D in the first quarter of 2011.