英特尔与中国互联网巨擘腾讯公司最近宣布在上海联合推出一个合资的MeeGo创新平台，双方在2011年IDF北京大会上宣布此事，虽然这项声明当时并没有引起人们的注意，但该合作背后的原因却颇耐人寻味。

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这两家公司的联手并非新鲜事，早在2010年四月份就已经宣布正式联姻，但现在是通过打造一个创新平台，在年底前将原来的60名工程师扩充到100人，进一步巩固双方合作基础。那么这两者打算通过这个创新平台推出什么项目呢？答案就是为MeeGo移动设备引进应用程序，运行英特尔Oak Trail处理器的MeeGo平板电脑将首先引进游戏内容。

游戏中间件制造厂商Razer在IDF北京大会的第二天也宣布，将首先把运行英特尔Oak Trail处理器的游戏设备Switchblade推向中国市场。那么谁会成为这些平台的游戏供应商？当然非腾讯莫属。在该大会的第一天，腾讯就已宣布计划根据MeeGo所采用的Oak Trail的功能创建游戏，紧接着又在第二天公布了与最热门的Oak Trail设备合作的消息。

Razer和腾讯将把四款知名的在线游戏及6亿多每月用户引向手机平台，Razer将负责优化Switchblade平台的《英雄联盟》、《地下城勇士》、《空越火线》和《QQ飞车》，这四者的每月活跃用户约1.3亿人，腾讯公司将Oak Trail设备视为可提供强大游戏体验的移动平台。尽管Switchblade目前运行的是Windows 7系统，但双方均表示有意将MeeGo植入该设备。

英特尔曾公开表示Android平台杂乱无章，并称赞MeeGo的开放性，但面临来势汹汹的谷歌Android操作系统，英特尔如果想在这一市场上站稳脚跟（游戏邦注：诺基亚与微软结盟后，不少人对MeeGo的命运充满同情），就不得不找到像腾讯这种实力雄厚的合作伙伴。虽然这种合作并不能有效重振MeeGo，但至少可以说明这个手机平台的生命仍未终止。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

Can China’s Tencent breath life into Intel’s MeeGo mobile platform?

Intel and China’s mega-popular internet portal service Tencent announced today that they are launching a joint Innovation Center for MeeGo (the open-source mobile operating system pushed by Nokia and Intel that Nokia has since abandoned for Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7) in Shanghai. The announcement came at the IDF Beijing 2011 conference and was almost overlooked among the numerous other announcements coming out of the event. But it’s actually a very interesting maneuver.

The partnership between the two companies isn’t brand spanking new, as they announced their official courtship back in April 2010. However, now they’re solidifying it with this commitment to build an innovation center and grow it from 60 engineers to 100 by year’s end. What are they planning on doing in this center? Well, bringing apps to all forms of MeeGo devices, but first on their list is games for MeeGo tablets featuring Intel’s Oak Trail processors.

Game hardware maker Razer announced on day two of the IDF Beijing conference that it is bringing the Switchblade, an Oak Trail Gaming device to the Chinese market first. Who do you think is going to be providing the games for this platform? Why, Tencent, of course! On day one of the conference, it announced it has plans to build games leveraging the power of Oak Trail using MeeGo, and on day two it announced a partnership with the hottest Oak Trail device currently coming to market.

Razer and Tencent are bring four immensely popular online games with roughly 600 million monthly gamers to mobile. Razer is going to focus optimization of the Switchblade on League of Legends as well as Dungeon & Fighter, Crossfire and QQ Speed. Tencent sees 130 million active monthly users between the four games and views Oak Trail as the mobile computing platform able to deliver a powerful gaming experience. Though the Switchblade is currently running Windows 7, both Tencent and Razer concluded that they were interesting in the possibility of delivering MeeGo on the device.

It’s not every day that Intel announces a partner that will declare on stage in a press event that “Android is a mess” and then praise MeeGo’s openness. Intel is going to need many more partners like Tencent if MeeGo is going to stand a chance against Google’s Android mobile operating system. In an ecosystem full of distain for Android because of a lack of marketplace support Intel has found a sympathetic shoulder after being abandoned so harshly by Nokia. This is not enough to revive its struggling OS, but for now, it’s a sign that there is still life in MeeGo yet.（source:venturebeat）