Intel's Bay Trail chip arriving on Android tablets in Q2

Intel's quad-core Atom processor will come to Android tablets in the second quarter, CEO Brian Krzanich said Thursday during a quarterly earnings conference call with analysts.

"Most of the Bay Trail Android tablets really start showing up more in Q2...remember we made a shift, the original program for Bay Trail was all Windows," he said during Intel's fourth-quarter earnings conference call.

He went on to explain that there was a shift mid-stream to Android, thus the delay in Bay TrailAndroid tablets.

Android devices running on the Bay Trail processor were conspicuously absent at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month. Intel's CES pavilion, for instance, had no Bay Trail Android tablets on display.

During the conference call, Krzanich also talked about the advantages of its 64-bit chips when responding to an analyst's question (transcript courtesy of Seeking Alpha). Android today is a 32-bit platform.