Chip giant Intel is in talks with Google to support Android-fueled mobile internet devices like tablets, according to market sources. But why is it going to the trouble, when Google Chrome OS has just been announced?
Word on the street in Taiwan is that Intel and Google have bumped heads to produce MIDs and tablet supporting Android, according to the DigiTimes. The news is strangely timed, as Google has only just revealed plans for a more fully fledged PC operating system, Google Chrome OS.
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Android on any computer more powerful than a smartphone has always seemed liked a slightly strange exercise, but with the news that Google Chrome OS will run on both low power ARM processors and traditional x86 architecture (Read: Intel netbooks), it’s starting to look shaky indeed.
It could just be that the first batch of Intel MIDs running Android will launch long before Google Chrome OS’s late 2010 window, but Google still has to work out where the divide lies between its two operating systems: just today the company’s CEO said they may “merge even closer“. Here’s hoping someone draws a line in the sand soon: this sort of confusion is what put people off Linux in netbooks in the first place.
