Qualcomm is the latest chip supplier to welcome Nokia's tie-up with Microsoft on mobile operatng systems.
"It is a positive move for the market," said Steve Mollenkopf, executive v-p and group president at Qualcomm, speaking at Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona.
This is no surprise as Qualcomm prides itself on being a big supplier of chipsets for mobile phones based on the Windows mobile platform.
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"But we offer broad-based support for all ecosystems including Windows 7, Windows Phone and Android," said Mollenkopf.
"A majority of Android phones run on our chipset," claimed Mollenkopf.
This includes five new HTC handsets annouced at Mobile World Congress this week.
Commenting on Nokia CEO Steve Elop's view that the mobile phone market is now a battle of ecosystems and not handsets, Mollenkopf said: "We believe this is a correct evaluation of the market and we believe this has been the case for some time."
Mollenkopft also confirmed that the supplier's first dual-core Snapdragon chips would start shipping in the summer "and through the second half of the year".
The main application of the chips is in smartphones , but Qualcomm said the dual-core chips will be used in higher performance tablets.
The firm is facing strong competition in the tablet market from rival chipset supplier Nvidia, which has greater experiecne in supplying chips to thePC market.
However, Qualcomm's big push to expand its business out of mobile phones and into more PC-like tablets will be based on its quad-core Snapdragon processor which was announced this week.
This is the firm's first 28nm chip which will enter the market in 2012.
Today, there is only one tablet, from HP, in the market with the Qualcomm current dual-core chipset inside.
"There are currently 20 designs for tablets in progress and we expect these to appear within this calendar year," said Mollenkopf.
These first tablet designs are will be based on dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor.
"We use our own implementation of the ARM instruction set for mobile," said Mollenkopf.
"Optimising the architectrure means that our dual-core chip has the same performance as four A9 cores in other achitectures," claimed Mollenkopf.
"The dual-core processors can run up to 2.5GHz," said Mollenkopf.
Richard Wilson, Barcelona