14 DAY TRIAL // While Intel, like any other IT player, usually does its best to not let too much information slip to the web on its future plans, things of this sort sometimes happen anyway, like during a recent earnings call.
Intel is, at the moment, most commonly known as the world' greatest chip supplier and one of the greatest companies in the IT industry as a whole.
In even more recent terms, this company may also be known for being one that seems to keep breaking its quarterly revenue record.
In fact, as revealed by the recent earnings call and a press release, Q1 of 2011 marked the appearance of yet another record figure.
Apparently, the earnings call with financial analysts actually turned into a source of information regarding a certain other matter.
When speaking of the company's intentions as far as the tablet market goes, chief Paul S. Otellini actually did give more than just vague hints.
Among other things, he said that the Santa Clara, California-based outfit has received the code for the Honeycomb version of the Android operating system.
Next up, the company will port it to its tablets, all of which will (most likely) work on the Oak Trail hardware platform, so far represented by the Atom Z670 central processing unit (CPU).
He also said that the loss of Nokia's support was a strong blow as far as its smartphone plans went.
"We've received Android code – the Honeycomb version of Android source code – from Google, and we're actively doing the port on that, and expect to be able to ramp those machines over the course of this year for a number of customers."
"In terms of phones, obviously, we lost Nokia, which took a lot of the wind out of the sails for phones this year. We've redirected those resources […]. I would be very disappointed if we didn't see Intel-based phones for sale 12 months from now."