AMD has been very hesitant to bid for a role in the smartphone processor world, but it has been quietly building an alternative Android strategy based around the PC. While Intel gets ever closer to Google and sees its Atom chips finally turning up in Android handsets, AMD has a partnership with BlueStacks, which has been bringing apps running the Google OS to AMD-based PCs and notebooks. The companies have now brought Google Play applications and content to Windows and these will run on Windows 8 when it debuts at the end of this year. This could give Android users the opportunity to run the same software on their handsets, tablets and PCs. Users can harness the free BlueStacks App…