Intel Delivers Innovations Atop Google's Android

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Delivers Innovations Atop Google's Android

Intel has released their own spin of Google's Android operating system with some features not yet found in the upstream open-source Android project...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTMyNTM

[ldesnogu]

This raises a question: do Android smartphones based on Intel chips really use gcc everywhere or is icc used in some places?

[droidhacker]

Watch it not work on AMD hardware.

Oh for FUCK SAKE. UEFI ONLY???!?!?!? ASSHOLES!

[Awesomeness]

Watch it not work on AMD hardware.

Oh for FUCK SAKE. UEFI ONLY???!?!?!? ASSHOLES!

http://www.android-x86.org/

[willmore]

"excluding the except Samsung XE700"

It seems today is my day to be a proofreader.

[droidhacker]

http://www.android-x86.org/

^^^^ made in China, with the typical China quality thing going, including "hardware" acceleration that performs suspiciously like software.

[intelmatt]

"excluding the except Samsung XE700"

It seems today is my day to be a proofreader.

Link to the page where you saw that?

thanks,
Matt, Intel Corp.

[lam23]

I'm a Linux user and how true it is? can somebody give me a link on how to install it? does anyone of you here tried it already?

[chenxiaolong]

Link to the page where you saw that?

thanks,
Matt, Intel Corp.

It's in the Phoronix article, not the Intel websites

[przemoli]

I'm a Linux user and how true it is? can somebody give me a link on how to install it? does anyone of you here tried it already?

Intel long time ago realized that Google support ARM (only). So if they want to sell their chips to Android OEM's they must add support for x86 themselfs.

Work is going on for a while. Its true, it work (and you can even buy some Android phones powered by x86 made by Intel).