Motorola's long and happy relationship with Texas Instruments (TI) may be finally coming to a halt. Latest speculative leaks indicate that the mobile technology company could be shifting to Qualcomm and their well performing S4 Snapdragon processor for its future innovations. If that's true, it could mean that Motorola's also moving away from NVIDIA, which is still in the process of designing its LTE-capable chips.

The GLBenchmark for the AT&T Motorola device listed as the MB886 indicates that the device will feature Qualcomm's 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 MSM8960 processor, just like the one found in the HTC One XL which, according to rumors, will be released sometime next week on AT&T. If the latest leaked benchmark is anything to go by, then future innovations by Motorola will make more use of the Qualcomms components.

Slashgear said a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm is being used and there is a possibility that the extremely powerful and efficient dual-core processor that is available in the new HTC One S is in the mix. The threads are pointing to the possibility that this could be a real phone considering that the innovation listed as the MB886, which is code-named Qinara, resembles the Motorola Dinara. The listing features Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich as well as a resolution of 720p, bringing into consideration the presence of on-screen menu buttons of the sleek Android 4.0 ICS.

TI OMAP 4 has seen its days and we are yet to see what OMAP 5 will have to offer. But if Motorola is indeed shifting to Qualcomm for the next line of its mobile innovations of smartphones as well as tablets, the partnership between Motorola and TI may be over.

The MB886 model could be Atrix 3 and Android watchers say that the device will come with a screen resolution of 1196 x 720 resembling that of the Galaxy Nexus. If that is true, then it's not unreasonable to expect the model to come with on-screen menu buttons.

(reported by Gugulethu Nyoni, edited by Dave Clark)