Google reveals its Android for PC is coming next year

Google’s Sameer Samat explains what’s adjacent for Android and ChromeOS.

One of the biggest stories retired of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit successful Maui isn’t conscionable astir Qualcomm — it’s however Google is yet merging Android and ChromeOS to make a caller operating strategy for computers. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon revealed that it’s yet happening, and now, a Google exec has revealed when it’s happening, too.

It’s “something we’re ace excited astir for adjacent year,” said Google’s Sameer Samat, caput of Android Ecosystem, at the process extremity of Qualcomm’s announcement keynote.

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If you deliberation astir the laptop signifier factor, we’ve had ChromeOS for a agelong clip and we’re ace committed to that level and it’s been truly palmy for us, we’ve learned a batch from it arsenic well. We besides person Android tablets that person been ace successful, they’re becoming much productivity machines each the time. So I deliberation the accidental for america that we spot is however bash we accelerate each the AI advancement that we’re doing connected Android and bring that to the laptop signifier origin arsenic rapidly arsenic possible, and besides person the laptop and the remainder of the Android ecosystem enactment seamlessly together.

So what we’re doing is we’re fundamentally taking the ChromeOS acquisition and re-baselining the exertion underneath it connected Android. So that operation is thing we’re ace excited astir for adjacent year, and we’re moving with yourselves and others connected it, and we can’t wait.

(I’m not sure about that full “Android tablets person been ace successful” part, but hey.)

Neither Qualcomm nor Google person said precisely however they’re moving unneurotic connected the combined OS, but Qualcomm doesn’t conscionable marque the astir fashionable flagship Android telephone processor — here’s the caller Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 that’ll apt look successful the adjacent Samsung Galaxy — but besides PC chips now.

Today, it announced the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Elite Extreme with claims that they’re the astir businesslike chips disposable for Windows PCs. That announcement came without a notation of Google oregon Android oregon Chrome, but it wouldn’t beryllium astonishing if an Android for PC targeted those chips oregon similar.