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21 May 2010
Google has signed deals with Intel, Sony, Logitech and others to release the first Android powered televisions by the end of the year.
Intel had already announced plans for the smart TV business, and confirmed today that it will partner with Google to use Atom chipsets in the new televisions.
The sets will be available in the autumn of 2010 in the US, and the rest of the world next year.
Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering at Google, said that the future of internet TV lies in an open platform, unlike previous moves taken by Apple in this area.
"It is similar to questions we were asked about Android," he said. "You can see the same approach."
Sony chief executive Howard Stringer said that his company had been working with Google to build programmable TVs, and that Sony had learned from previous internet TVs and will make this system work.
"It's all-inclusive. You buy the TV and that's it," he said. "You may be charged later, but that will be from people who copy us."
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