Google’s Android for PC: ‘I’ve seen it, it is incredible’

Google is continuing to dilatory tease its rumored plans to bring Android to PCs, merging it with ChromeOS, and present Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon is getting successful connected the action. He says he’s seen a mentation of the software, and that helium “can’t hold to person one.”

Amon was speaking connected signifier with Google’s caput of platforms and devices, Rick Osterloh, during the opening keynote for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit, wherever aboriginal contiguous the institution volition uncover its Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset. Before that though, the 2 execs teased Google and Qualcomm’s aboriginal plans together, from automotive to user PCs.

“In the past, we’ve ever had precise antithetic systems betwixt what we’re gathering connected PCs and what we’re gathering connected smartphones, and we’ve embarked connected a task to harvester that,” Osterloh said. “ We are gathering unneurotic a communal method instauration for our products connected PCs and desktop computing systems.”

He went connected to corroborate that Google’s plans impact bringing Gemini and the afloat Android AI stack, on with “all of our applications and developer community,” into the PC ecosystem. “I deliberation this is different mode successful which Android is gonna beryllium capable to service everyone successful each computing category.”

“I’ve seen it, it is incredible,” replied Amon excitedly. “It delivers connected the imaginativeness of convergence of mobile and PC. I can’t hold to person one.”

The past we heard of Google’s plans was this July, erstwhile Android caput Sameer Samat confirmed Google is “combining ChromeOS and Android into a azygous platform,” pursuing past year’s efforts to begin processing ChromeOS connected parts of the Android stack.