Intel continued its aggressive entrance into the mobile market on Tuesday by inking a partnership agreement with Google (News - Alert) to optimize the Android operating system for smartphones that run on Intel chips, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The two companies will work together to ensure that future versions of Android will support Intel's "Atom" processors and other architectures, Intel CEO Paul Otellini (News - Alert) said at the company's annual developers' conference. The partnership should help Intel push forward its goal of delivering the first Intel-powered smartphone by the early part of 2012.
"We want to make Intel architecture the platform of choice for smartphones," Intel CEO Paul Otellini told the crowd. "Every time we have collaborated with Google, good things have come out of it."
Intel, possibly motivated by the sluggish PC market that it has dominated for years, is making a concerted effort to carve out a presence in the mobile space, a market that ARM (News - Alert) has maintained a near stranglehold on for years. Pairing itself with the world's largest OS maker certainly can't hurt... Read More
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