Intel has ported Google’s Android to Atom-based smartphones, said Renee James, general manager of Intel’s software and services group, at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing.
The move is part of Intel’s aim to further drive its Atom microprocessors into smartphones. Currently chips from competitor Arm dominates the mobile device world and Intel wants in, explains PC World.
The Moorestown shrink of Intel’s Atom processor will play on smartphones, tablets, nettops and netbooks. The new MeeGo OS is probably Intel’s operating system of choice for future mobile devices.
MeeGo merges the ARM-centric Nokia Mameo and the Atom-centric Intel Moblin into a single OS that runs on both Arm processors and Intel Atom processors. ARM CPUs are not made by Intel. They include NVIDIA’s Tegra and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon.
OSUOSL will provide hosting, infrastructure, and distribution support for the MeeGo production environment and server infrastructure. Hosted at Oregon State University, the lab is home for dozens of important open source communites like the Linux Foundation, Apache Foundation, Drupal, Debian Linux and others.
