Last week Intel dropped what seemed to be a bombshell by saying that its upcoming Clover Trail Atom chip will not support Linux. Since then a little more information has surfaced that goes some way to justify the firm’s decision to ignore what is arguably the most important operating system on mobile devices.
Since Intel’s Clover Trail admission something odd happened. Intel sent over a statement saying, “There is no fundamental barrier to supporting Linux on Clover Trail since it utilizes Intel architecture cores and those same cores (Penwell) on Medfield support Android today (for tablets and phones).”