Jide Technology, founded by three ex-Google engineers, has released a public alpha version of Remix OS for PC, an edition of Android built for Intel x86 processors. Remix OS is an alternative to Chrome OS, another Google creation for low-resource machines. Available for download and testing, Remix OS for PC is an operating system based on Android that is custom engineered to increase productivity. It allows for multitasking through multi-windows, has been optimized for physical keyboard usage and touchscreen operation.

The OS can be booted from a flash drive, with user session data saved to the drive if needed. Another boot mode keeps the user session in memory only and discards it at shutdown. Updates to the system will be provided for free and are downloaded and applied directly to the flash drive it's stored on.

Jide is bundling Remix OS with its own hardware devices, such as the Remix Mini all-in-one PC and the Remix Ultratablet -- patterned after Microsoft's Surface.