Also, service providers have a tendency to stay with their incumbent vendors due to the difficulties associated with changing or adding new products and new vendors in a highly critical area like core routing.
These chipsets are slated to be released for sampling by vendors next year and will nicely complement its growing portfolio of quad-core Snapdragons for the low-end smartphones.
The resulting competition is driving prices down for core MDM products, and, like a balloon being squeezed, is forcing the vendors in this market to offer additional capabilities to differentiate.