Intel, Google 'optimize' chips for Android • The Register

IDF 2011 Intel will add added place to its underway partnership with Google, announcing that the digit companies will impact unitedly to behave every forthcoming releases of Android for Intel-architecture processors.

"Google and Intel hit been employed unitedly as partners in technology solutions for whatever eld in the accumulation center, on Google TV, on Chrome OS," Intel CEO Apostle Otellini told attendees during his Intel Developer Forum tone become on Tuesday. "And today our smartphone organisation teams hit become unitedly on optimizing our semiconductor and our designs for Android."

Paul Otellini at force 2011

Earlier this year, Otellini permit it be famous that Intel was porting the tablet-specific Android 3.0, aka Honeycomb, to Intel architecture. Apparently, the force declaration deepens and extends that effort.

Andy Rubin, Google's grownup evilness chair of mobile, connected Otellini on stage, and effused most partnering with Intel. "The partnership has been great," he said. "We've optimized a aggregation of our products, including what's streaming in the accumulation center, every instance [there's been] whatever newborn types of set redesign – apparently existence handled by the IA architecture."

Otellini brought the communicating discover of the accumulation edifice and into your incurvature or onto your lap, informing Rubin: "We hit lots of products coming discover that I wish you guys crapper verify plus of in phones and tablets. And we're agog most optimizing our semiconductor and meaning designs around not meet the underway releases of Android, but the forthcoming ones as well."

Rubin took a instance to vindicate the meat of the agreement. "We're feat to work rattling intimately to attain trusty that Android is optimized the prizewinning it mayhap crapper be for the Intel architecture," he said. "Going forward, every forthcoming releases of Android will be optimized."

On-stage contact announcement

Rubin said that the improvement will be broad-ranging, first with "the rattling baritone levels" of hardware-software interaction, citing as examples the Android kernel, Intel's memory-management abilities, and another "great features of these low-power IA structure [chips]," including multimedia, 3D graphics, and another SoC capabilities.

Otellini was certain to accent the underway nature of his company's partnership with Google. "Every instance we've collaborated with Google," he said, "good things hit become discover of it. So I'm agog – and hit broad expectations – around this as well."

Otellini was excited. Rubin was excited. Following the rubrics of tone exchanges, in the digit transactions that Rubin was on stage, he and Otellini spoken their shared fervour a beatific half-dozen times. ®