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Company puts Android on laptop with China-backed chips
Thursday, 04, March 2010
A Chinese company is tweaking Google’s Android operating system to run on a laptop using homegrown Chinese microprocessors, which are backed by the government.The move by Lemote Technology, based in China's Jiangsu province, is the first sign of interest in Android among backers of China's Loongson chips, which also go by the name Godson.Google said in January it planned to stop censoring results on its China-based search engine, a move that would defy Chinese regulations and that raised concerns about potential harm to Android's reception in China.
But Lemote's work is the latest sign of continued interest in Android by Chinese tech companies -- including some linked to the Chinese government.Lemote already offers a demo version of Android that users can download for the YeeLoong8089 netbook, a mini-laptop with an 8.9 inch screen, an employee at the company said Wednesday. Lemote is now working on an optimized version of the OS that it hopes to release for the same netbook soon, the employee said.