A key supplier of chips to Japanese handset makers wants to offer NTT Docomo's 3G W-CDMA platform design outside of the country.

Renesas Technology wants the  Freedom of Mobile Multimedia Access (FOMA) platform as a handset reference design to companies outside Japan.

Matthew Trowbridge, CEO of Renesas Technology Europe, said there was an interest in the platform outside Japan.  Renesas sells the  SH-Mobile baseband and application processors which have to be integrated with other RF and memory subsystems to produce a mobile phone.

When the the telecoms move to Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology, it was likely to happen in Japan first.  This means that there would have to be a shift of application processor support to high definition graphics on mobile phones. 
The FOMA platform to be offered more widely to make this successful, it says here. X