Intel Corp, the world's biggest computer chip maker, will start selling a new chip to power high-speed mobile phones next year.

A Bloomberg News report said Intel aims to win customers from Texas Instruments Inc, the No.1 manufacturer of cell phone chips.

The new chip will be targeted at both "top-end" and "volume" phones. Intel will introduce the product in the second half of 2004, and it will feature in phones next year.

The chip, dubbed Hermon, will be used in mobile phones that use a technology called wideband code-division multiple access (WCDMA) and allows videoconferencing.

(Xinhua News Agency February 27, 2004)