# Intel® Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager

If you find the android emultor a slow and your system runs on an Intel® cpu, you can check out HAXM. HAXM let's you leverage your hardware for virtualization accelerating the emulator.

* To install HAXM open the Android SDK Manager, you will find the package under Extras.
* You can find all relevent documentation on [Intel's website][1]
* This will require an x86 emulator image

[1]: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-hardware-accelerated-execution-manager/ "Hax" 
[2]: http://software.intel.com/en-us/search/site/language/en?query=Intel%20Hardware%20Accelerated%20Execution%20Manager%20%28HAXM%29 "Hax all"
