The tech giants are looking to ramp up the number of mobile apps for Tizen with a contest that will offer $4 million in prizes.

That resulted in a statement from Christopher Croteau, managing director of Intel's Software and Services Group and a board member with the Tizen Association, saying that the giant chip maker was committed to the Linux-based open-source OS.

The tech giants are looking to ramp up the number of mobile apps for Tizen with a contest that will offer $4 million in prizes.

Intel and Samsung Electronics are looking to boost their nascent Tizen mobile operating system with an app developer contest that will offer more than $4 million in cash prizes.

Top winning applications in the Tizen App Challenge, which launched July 9 and runs through Nov. 1, could win as much as $200,000. Intel and Samsung expect more than 50 developers to win some amount of money.

The announcement of the contest came a couple of weeks after reports surfaced that Samsung was delaying the release of its first Tizen-based smartphones, and after a Russian blogger said that Tizen was not just delayed, but possibly was dead.