Intel and MIPS have said that Android 4.0 would porting for processors that use the x86 and MIPS architecture. Google has a new Android version designed for ARM-based processors.
That let both companies know to ComputerWorld. According to Intel contains Android 4.0, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich, optimizations for x86 architecture. This allows the new version of the mobile OS easily run on Intel processors, despite the fact that Google is in the development on the ARM architecture. Android 4.0 is made for Omap4 processors from Texas Instruments. Intel with the Android-maker have worked together for x86 support, which is the first smartphone with such a chip in the first half of 2012 on the market is expected.
MIPS Technologies, developer of the MIPS instruction set for processors, has indicated that Android 4.0 will be ported to processors as soon as Google’s source code reveal. Therefore, the company will have to wait, because the internetgigant this will only be release after the Samsung Galaxy Nexus with the new Android version on the market. The company says only 90 days required to have the necessary modifications to Android ICS on MIPS processors to run, because the new version of the OS is a lot like Honeycomb. MIPS had been working on a port of this version to its processors.
The first device with Android ICS, the Galaxy Nexus from Samsung, runs on an OMAP4460 from Texas Instruments, which on an ARMv7 instruction set is based. This tweekernige soc works on a clock speed of 1.2 GHz. The smartphone is expected to be soon released in the Netherlands.