Computing giant Intel has set up a development partnership with Google to help improve how the Android operating system runs on its processors.
Android phones featuring Intel chips should be available in the first half of 2012, Intel executives said on Tuesday at its annual developer conference in San Francisco.
The development partnership will see the Android mobile operating system run on Intel’s lower-powered Atom chips.
The move will give Intel greater access to the mobile devices sector, where it has so far been sluggish to respond to soaring demand.
Whereas rival ARM has dominated the smartphone low power consumtion chip market, Intel has only recently launched its own versions in the form of the Oak Trail processor range.
Android has become the world’s leading operating system for smartphones.
