Ambitions of Intel in the tablet devices are expressed mainly in the desire to realize 40 million corresponding processors of its own production to the end of this year. For this giant attracts numerous Chinese manufacturers, processors offering them at a substantial discount, and an additional incentive program should be Reference Design for Android, which was announced at the autumn session of the forum for developers.
Intel is going to offer reference designs partners tablets running the Android operating system on the base of its processors. What is typical, Intel is going to attend to their own certification reference projects in the Google Mobile Services, freeing the partners of this procedure. Also, Intel promises not only to optimize the Android operating system for standard devices, but also to maintain their operational later software updates over a two year period after the release of the tablet.
Intel is offering partners a list of recommended components.
Intel also introduced a program Analytics for Wearables (A-Wear), aimed at accelerating the development of new portable devices.