Google Forms Partnership With Intel for Future Android Phones and Tablets

By CP News Briefs, Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Google has announced that it is going to team up with Intel Corp. to develop a new software that aimed at running on the chipmaker's next generation mobile microchips.

News about when the new system will be launched is yet to be announced.

During Intel’s yearly developer conference in San Francisco, the two companies announced Tuesday that the android software currently used by Google will be optimized for Intel’s Atom processors.

Atom chips require half as much power as the earlier models of Intel processors thus making them very suitable for portable, light and battery-powered devices.

Atom chips are commonly used by laptops and tablets from popular brands such as Sony, Dell, Lenovo and Acer, but are only used occasionally on smartphones.

So what has made Intel decide to team up with Google?

Intel decided to tie up with Google since the search engine giant’s Android operating system has become the bestselling software for smartphone, and now amounts to 43 percent of the market sold worldwide over the last quarter, and is even used by brands such as HTC and Samsung.

Aside from tying up with Intel, Google also agreed to purchase Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion which can make the way for Google to design its own phones that can use the Intel chips.

Longtime Intel partner and Google rival, Microsoft, has its own mobile phone strategy to offset Google’s plans by using Windows 8 to run on tablets and smartphones.