Chipmaker Intel and Germany's Siemens will collaborate on developing new technology for Internet telephony, a Reuters report said.
The Reuters report said Intel and Siemens wanted to expand the scope of Internet telephony, popularized by Skype, to build communications systems for corporate customers such as providers of telecoms and financial services and digital healthcare.
'Siemens has a strong commitment to this joint development effort and to ongoing collaboration with Intel,' Thomas Zimmermann, president of Siemens' Enterprise Systems division, said in a statement.
Siemens hopes to sell its Enterprise Systems division, which specializes in building telecoms systems for large corporations, by the end of the month.
To start with, the two companies said they would co-fund research and work together in the fields of secure wireless networks and real-time communications based on VoIP, the report said.
The technology they want to develop will be based on Intel's dual-core chips and rack-mounted servers, along with Siemens' HiPath 8000 and OpenScape telecoms technology, the report said.