Qualcomm and MediaTek have offered quad-core chip solutions and Qualcomm’s chip solutions can support CDMA 2000, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA and LTE, while MediaTek’s can support EDGE, WCDMA and TD-SCDMA, the sources indicated. In comparison, most of China-based designers’ chip solutions support EDGE and TD-SCDMA but not WCDMA and CDMA 2000, the sources pointed out.
It is unclear at this point what sort of implications this move might have, although we’re sure that the added competition might spur Qualcomm on to producing a better product – that or we could be looking at a new force to be reckoned with as far as SoCs are concerned that could lead to more powerful and/or efficient devices.