DoCoMo and Samsung team up for smartphone chips to challenge Qualcomm

Qualcomm has pretty much been dominating the mobile scene in terms of processors, although they are facing some competition from Texas Instruments and NVIDIA with their Tegra processors, but now it appears that Japanese carrier, DoCoMO, has teamed up with Samsung along with other companies to produce mobile device chips that they aim to give Qualcomm and run for their money.

Samsung already has their own brand of in-house chips in the form of the Exynos processor, which has pretty much seen a somewhat limited use to their own Samsung products. The chips that this joint venture is expected to produce will be “feature-rich, small-size, low-power-consumption semiconductor products equipped with modem functionality,” such as 4G LTE and LTE-Advanced standards.

If you’re looking forward to seeing this joint venture start pushing out chips any time soon, you might be in for a wait as this venture is only expected to be established come March 2012. No word on when production is expected to start or when we can start seeing these new chips make their way into our devices.