An unnamed executive of the Taiwanese computer company AsusTek, better known as Asus, said that the compay designed a tablet that would soon be released by, and co-branded with, Google, Reuters reported early Wednesday. The Asus executive said that the Google/Asus tablet was built to compete with Amazon’s Kindle Fire, which runs a modified version of Google’s Android operating system but funnels profits almost entirely to Amazon.
The report comes hours ahead of the start of Google’s I/O developer conference in San Francisco, where Google is widely anticipated to unveil such a device. It also comes on the heels of a Gizmodo Australia report Monday that the website had obtained a training document describing an Asus made Google tablet named Nexus 7.
