MeeGo started as a joint project between Intel and Nokia, and now here’s a new active partner, surprisingly coming from Intel’s oldest arch rival, AMD. MeeGo has added AMD to the list of companies actively supporting the development of the platform.

AMD will pledge the contribution of its “engineering expertise” to the further advancement of the open source OS. In simpler terms, AMD must be aware of the great potential of MeeGo and is seeking not to be left behind, as illustrated by Ben Bar-Haim, the company’s software development VP, who expressed AMD’s hope that “this operating system will help drive our embedded plans and create expanded market opportunities for our forthcoming Accelerated Processing Units.” Great news this is. Perhaps AMD is very keen to join the mobile platform?