Collaborations in the technology world between companies are very common. Chipmakers often team with OEMs to design products that will showcase their hardware for instance. These collaborations help reduce the costs and share the risks of development associated with new offerings.

Intel and Nokia announced in June of 2009 that they would be teaming up to work on various projects, one of which was cited as the Intel Moblin operating system. Moblin is a Linux-based operating system that Intel designed as an alternative to Windows and other operating systems on netbooks. Intel talked about the coming Pineview Atom processors and Moblin v2 in May of 2009 and at the time many analysts felt the operating system had no chance of catching on in the netbook and notebook market. Intel said at the time that future version s of Mobile would be aimed at smartphones.

Nokia is a major player in the mobile phone world and sells more smartphones and other handsets around the world than any other handset maker. Nokia has been offering its own Maemo OS on smartphones like the N900 since the summer of 2009. The collaboration between Nokia and Intel has resulted in a new mobile phone operating system being spawned called MeeGo.

MeeGo is an open source Linux project that mates Moblin and Maemo into a single open source activity. The goal of the new OS is to integrate the experience and skill of Nokia and Intel into a single project. MeeGo features optimized performance and intends to deliver a rich computational and graphically oriented platform for applications and connected services development. The Linux Foundation will manage the project. 

MeeGo uses a Linux stack that is specifically optimized for size and capability for small footprint platforms and mobile devices and will offer broad compatibility with Linux software. The OS is targeting netbooks and entry-level desktops along with mobile phones, in-vehicle entertainment, and connected TVs. Exactly when devices running the MeeGo OS will turn up is unknown.