NEC Corp. and NEC Electronics Corp. to jointly develop system LSI chips for third-generation mobile phone consoles to strengthen the competitiveness of NEC's 3G mobile terminal platforms for the global market.

The two companies have set up a joint project team and begun developing a dual-mode 3G baseband LSI chip that can deal with both second- and third-generation mobile phone consoles, the two companies said.

From KYODO News