The world's largest chip maker is working with Google on the Chrome operating system and has been privy to the project for some time, a spokesman for the company said Friday.
Intel's endorsement is important for the Chrome OS project because of its standing in the personal computing world: Intel microprocessors go into around four-fifths of the world's computers.
Google is aiming the Chrome OS at desktops, laptops and netbooks, all devices dominated by Microsoft Windows, so supporting Chrome could put Intel in an awkward position with Microsoft. The two companies have so dominated the PC industry over the past few decades that the term "Wintel" (from Windows and Intel) is used to refer to PCs running Windows on a processor based on the Intel-developed x86 architecture.
More: http://pcworld.com/article/168196
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Intel's endorsement is important for the Chrome OS project because of its standing in the personal computing world: Intel microprocessors go into around four-fifths of the world's computers.
Google is aiming the Chrome OS at desktops, laptops and netbooks, all devices dominated by Microsoft Windows, so supporting Chrome could put Intel in an awkward position with Microsoft. The two companies have so dominated the PC industry over the past few decades that the term "Wintel" (from Windows and Intel) is used to refer to PCs running Windows on a processor based on the Intel-developed x86 architecture.
More: http://pcworld.com/article/168196
