Report: Intel Stopping Development on MeeGo
Is Intel losing faith in Meego?
Rumor has it that Intel is temporarily stopping development on MeeGo, the Linux-based mobile OS it developed in cooperation with Nokia last year. Digitimes cites industry sources that say Intel is stopping development due to a lack of enthusiasm for the platform from hardware vendors. These sources say Intel will instead focus on hardware products, with its handset platforms to be paired with either Android or Windows Phone in 2012.
While the decision wouldn't surprise those who have been following Meego news (in May of this year, Intel's CEO Paul Otellini admitted that Nokia probably wasn’t the right partner for his company), Intel has said that it remains committed to MeeGo.
"We remain committed to MeeGo and open source, and will continue to work with the community to help develop and meet the needs of customers and end users," an Intel spokesperson told CNET.
Announced in February of 2010, MeeGo is essentially a mash-up of Nokia's Maemo OS and Intel's Moblin operating system. Nokia and Intel said at the time that they planned to have the open source OS run on both smartphones and netbooks, with support for ARM architecture and Intel's line of Atom CPUs.

@Wish
Hardware wise, Nokia's quality is/was far superior to what samsung and likes offers, I am talking about high end E series phones, where they suffered was the software side of things. But that is just my opinion.
All of their platform branding has been scrapped, except for vPro (and it's not getting the respect it deserves). VBI was a flop, and Spring Peak is still trudging on in the quicksand (yes, seriously - they're still pushing Core 2 processors for partners to build systems from). In fact, they're now telling system builders to forget about building laptops and to buy them from bigger companies instead because Intel can't rangle the Channel well enough. Viiv is dead. UEFI has yet to make a splash in the server market (they are still using EFI 1.1 on most of their new boards, despite Windows not supporting it). They already sold off their IA-64 and previous ARM wings. Centrino is gone because they couldn't offer partners any real benefit to using Intel wireless cards. Larrabee didn't go anywhere. The Skulltrail dual-proc platform got fragged. I could go on for ages... MeeGo is just the next thing to get the axe.
And then you look at their core failures: Sandy Bridge is a DX10 part, the chipset was faulty from the get go, and Ivy Bridge is going to miss the schedule because tri-gate isn't working out like they hoped. I mean, WTF!?!
I don't know any tech manufacturer that has more flops than Intel. There is ONE thing, and ONE THING ONLY (IMO) that they are good at: engineering fast x86 cores. Can anybody honestly say that they're good at anything else? Cuz I can't come up with anything.
Sure, you can install busybox and a terminal emulator on Android after rooting, and I suppose there's a lesser level of access/dinking with iOS devices, but neither offer the level of access nor does the device come in a state where I can just start playing around with it.
I will miss my N900 when it finally dies
The basic issue is that there likely would have been some desire to include closed bits in the distribution (although that is somewhat counter to Intel's current position for their network and graphics chipsets, I am just extremely skeptical of a company that didn't start in FOSS releasing an entire distribution without some closed bits).
Most of the major distributions would balk at such a request (Debian and Fedora staunchly, Ubuntu a little less so). They could work with a smaller distro's team (who is open to the idea) or roll their own.
Working with ARM to get IA-64 instructions into the core.
ARM needs help with 64-bit support and IA-64 was already partly RISC-based from Intel's dealings with HP early on with their PA-RISC processors which were the precursors to Itanium.
Imagine if we had ARM processors now, built on EPIC technology....
Now it seems that ARM's mentor into the 64-bit world will be AMD.
Dude you got a blog or something?
Of course, Intel has zero ability to compete in any market that they can't sue their competitors out of existance. Let's have a look, shall we:
x86 CPUs: They hold perhaps a 10-20% performance advantage over their only real competitor, despite 100x the R&D money. They also maintain licensing rights over x86, which means they can decide not to let companies compete with them at all.
GPUs: dismal failure, and sadly, they probably spend more on R&D than DAAMIT.
HPC: They are a joke.
Server NICs: Surprisingly good for the money, must be a completely separate team than the above.
Non-x86 architectures: Epic fail, from ARM to the Itanic.
Software: Massive fail. They are the most open about Linux drivers, unfortunately, they are not stable, and the performance sucks anyways.