Intel is working with Google on Chrome OS

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Intel is working with Google on Chrome OS

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

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.

But Intel had been working on its own mobile operating system for small computer devices, a Linux-based OS called Moblin. It was designed for netbooks and handheld computers Intel calls MIDs, or mobile Internet devices

Software has to be compiled for the chip architecture it runs on, whether x86 chips from Intel, AMD or Via Technologies, or RISC (reduced instruction set computer) chips such as those designed by Arm Holdings.
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