Motorola is going in the coming years smartphones and a tablet with processors from Intel. That is, both firms have announced. This is Android-maker Google is in a great cooperation with the ARM-competitor stepped up.
Intel and Motorola have not disclosed how long their partnership will run. In the second half of 2012 should be the first devices that feature Intel processors and running Android on the market, so says Intel. That is the purpose of Motorola is probably the Medfield chipset. Intel and Google worked together on the possibility of Android on x86-based cpus to run.
Motorola is expected to this year the final property of Google, making the Android-maker with this partnership commits to making hardware on Intel processors. All Android smartphones and tablets run on ARM processors. Intel is already working for years on the monopoly of ARM mobile processors to break through, so far without success.
The American Motorola has largely withdrawn from the European market, but is still hardware in the Netherlands. So came the smartphones Defy and Razr in the recent times in the Netherlands. Many other models, such as the Droid 3, never come to the Netherlands. It is unclear if the Intel-based models come to the Netherlands. The first smartphone with Intel’s Medfield-soc is not a Motorola, but Lenovo.
Google announced in the last summer at Motorola purchase for $ 12.5 billion. The acquisition is still not around; concurrentiewaakhonden must still decide whether that should continue.