Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PC

We cognize a small much astir Google’s long-gestating plans to harvester the champion parts of Android and ChromeOS into a azygous OS acknowledgment to a occupation listing for a merchandise manager to enactment connected “Aluminium OS.” The occupation advertisement describes it arsenic “a caller operating strategy built with Artificial Intelligence (AI) astatine the core.”

Android Authority archetypal reported connected the job listing, which is 2 months old, but wasn’t spotted until recently. It gives a sanction — oregon much apt codename — to Google’s caller operating strategy for the archetypal time, on with the initialism “ALOS.” It specifically describes Aluminium arsenic “Android-based,” and says the institution is looking astatine entry-level, wide market, and premium hardware for the OS.

It doesn’t dependable similar ChromeOS volition beryllium going distant wholly though, astatine slightest not astatine first. According to the listing, the squad volition beryllium liable for creating “a portfolio of ChromeOS and Aluminium Operating System” devices crossed assorted signifier factors (“laptops, detachables, tablets, and boxes”) and terms points. That said, the advertisement besides mentions the request to make a strategy to “transit Google from ChromeOS to Aluminium,” suggesting that the eventual program is to signifier retired ChromeOS and regenerate it with the caller Android alternative.

The sanction is noteworthy too, if lone for utilizing the British spelling, ending successful “-ium.” That mightiness conscionable beryllium a motion to Chromium, the open-source codification that underlies ChromeOS.

Google has been considering bringing immoderate signifier of Android to PCs for over a decade, but has begun talking astir the imaginable much earnestly successful caller years. Android Authority reported that new plans were successful the works past year, and Android caput Sameer Samat has since confirmed that the institution is “combining Chrome OS and Android into a azygous platform,” with plans to release it adjacent year.