The widely known and popular PC chip manufacturer has recently stated that it is supporting an open-source operating system for cell phones and mobile devices. Their goal is to extend beyond it’s business of microprocessors and into software with their new OS called Moblin, which is short for “Mobile Linux”. Among other things, it will have a Firefox Fennec mobile browser, ‘widget’ based social networking applications, and panel-based navigation to browse through running programs.
Chief Executive Paul Otellini, at the Intel Developer Forum, flaunted the software that programmers can utilize to create application stores like the iPhone has. More competition for the market that Apple has so effectively cornered, and basically created.
Intel has said that it will let developers create applications that function on multiple platforms and various types of PCs using their processors. After all, Intel is the world’s largest semiconductor chip maker, and invented the x86 series of microprocessors which is found in most personal computers worldwide. They also make motherboard chipsets, network cards and Ics, flash memory, graphic chips and embedded processors among other things. With such a history and track record, we can only expect something great coming from Intel, no matter where they put their focus next.
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