A perennial runner-up in the PC chip race, AMD has for long dithered on entering the mobile and embedded chip segment. Back in September, AMD CEO Dirk Meyer told Fortune Magazine that his company has no immediate plans of entering this increasingly lucrative sector dominated by ARM’s chip designs. However, he did concede that his company is “developing the technology that will, over time, address these markets,” and qualified his comment as being a “not now” statement.
Hazy mobile plans notwithstanding, the chip maker has signed up for the MeeGO mobile operating system project. It will be lending its engineering expertise to the open source Linux-based OS project, which already includes the likes of Intel, Nokia and the Linux Foundation as its backers.
“MeeGo represents an exciting, open-source mobile operating system we expect to be adopted by mobile and embedded device makers over time,” said Ben Bar-Haim, corporate vice president, software development, AMD. “We are glad to provide engineering resources to joint industry efforts like MeeGo and expect that this operating system will help drive our embedded plans and create expanded market opportunities for our forthcoming Accelerated Processing Units.”
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