Lost in the commotion over the iPhone 5 news yesterday, Intel announced during the first day of its yearly developer conference that it has completed porting the latest version of Android in 4.1 Jelly Bean from its ARM-based underpinnings to the x86 chip platform, which would allow the chipmaker to develop chipsets and related hardware around the port of the operating system.
While Intel previously relied on MeeGo for the majority of its mobile Linux work, the chipmaker also took small steps to diversify its portfolio with Google’s operating system, first by developing a superset of Android used in the first generation Google TV platform...