Android 4.4 KitKat download for PC has been set up by Intel at its Android-on-Intel at Portal 01.org. Intel is in the process of making a system-on-a-chip for low-cost PCs and tablets and a 64-bit kernel for Android 4.4.
Toshiba's Chromebook runs on an inexpensive Intel Celeron processor. But Intel's chip in the making, the Braswell is likely to be used in Chromebooks.
Intel's brand new processor labelled "Braswell,"and the QVOD media box, along with a 64-bit Android kernel, were announced at the second day of a Developer's conference in China.
China is currently the No. 1 PC market worldwide, and it is no surprise that Intel is turning to China to make an impression on PC buyers there, instead of looking at the American market, which is well beyond the smarphone era and looking forward to wearable devices.
Senior VP at Intel Kirk Skaugen noted that the new chip code-named Braswell will be the next version of the Bay Trail processor, normally present in low-cost devices like Chromebooks and sub-$500 Windows PCs.
The Braswell chip is a SOC, aka a system-on-a-chip that Intel's next gen 14-nanometer manufacturing method. SoCs tend to make use of core electronics on a device and fit into a piece of silicon.
The Braswell chip should perform better than other chips and with greater performance and power efficiency than the Bay Trail chips - often called Pentium and Celeron. Pentium and Celeron are commonly used in the current value segment PCs.
At a developer Forum in Shenzhen, China on Wednesday, Intel released Android KitKat 4.4 with a 64-bit kernel suited for Intel Architecture devices. "With this release, the company ported, validated and tested the Android Open Source code on IA, taking on the work that developers typically would need to do on their own. This release will provide the ecosystem with 64-bit kernel support for development of next-generation devices," Intel said in an online report.