Fujitsu and NEC have teamed together with Japanese based phone operator NTT DoCoMo, in order to design and create semiconductor chips for mobile devices.

The partnership will aim to design chips aimed at reducing the need for multiple chips by consolidating functions.

The new venture will see shared distributed between Fujitsu- 52.8 percent, NEC- 17.8 percent, NTT DoCoMo- 19.9 percent and the remaining 9.5 percent held by Fujitsu Semiconductor.

A statement released by the partnership said: ““The technologies individually held by the companies, as well as the results of their joint development work, offer a huge competitive advantage in the smartphone market, which is expected to experience an even greater global expansion.”