But we’ve seen several efforts to bring the software to x86 processors, including the independent Android-x86 project as well as an Acer netbook which dual boots Windows and Google Android.

Intel's software advantage isn't really x86 compatibility, at least not primarily. The company's true ace card is the expertise of its software engineers and the scale of its development environment.

Some AMD chips are being used in tablets such as MSI's WindPad 110W. The port means that tablets with Android 4.0 based on x86 chips could be on the horizon, but using AMD chips rather than Intel's.

A few weeks later, Revision 10 of the Native Development Kit (NDK) was posted with support for the three 64-bit architectures that would be able to run the new version of Android: arm64-v8a, x86 ...