Intel, Google unveil Android mobile partnership
Reuters
4:08 p.m. CDT, September 13, 2011
Intel and Google launched a development partnership Tuesday, the latest effort by the world's dominant maker of PC microprocessors to break into the booming smartphone market.
The two companies will work together to optimize future versions of Google's Android mobile software for Intel's "Atom" processors, hoping to speed the development and time-to-market of future Intel-powered smartphones.
The move could jump-start Intel's efforts to expand into the market for mobile phones and touchscreen tablet devices at a time when sales of PCs are slowing.
The first Android phones featuring Google chips should be available in the first half of 2012, Intel executives said at the company's annual developer conference in San Francisco Tuesday.
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Could be good for 'business'