The Snapdragon Summit that today concludes has left news that has nothing to do with the new processors of Qualcommbut with Android. Google has confirmed that this operating system is combining and Chromeos To create a new one for computers that use processors with architecture ARM. This is the one found in mobiles and in some computers (for example, those of Apple or the PC IA of Microsoft), different from the X86 used by most Windows equipment. The CEO of Qualcomm, Cristiano Amon, revealed during the conference that this new Android is already a reality and was enthusiastic: ‘I have seen it, it’s incredible. It meets the vision of convergence between mobile and PC. I can’t wait to have one ‘he said. Google, meanwhile, has also announced when it will arrive.
‘It’s something that we are very excited for next year’he said Sameer Samatresponsible for the Android ecosystem in Google, at the end of the opening conference of Qualcomm.
The Qualcomm CEO explained that ‘in the past we have always had very different systems between what we build for PC and what we do in smartphones and have started a project to combine them. We are building together a common technical basis for our PC products and in desktop systems’.
Rick OsterlohGoogle platforms and devices that shared the stage with AMON, confirmed that The platform will incorporate Gemini and all the artificial intelligence of Android into the PC ecosystem. All Google applications and the Android developer community are also expected to be integrated. Google expects Android to achieve capture a higher market share on PC and compete more directly with Microsoft and Apple.
Samat, in his speech, said that ‘the opportunity we see is how to accelerate all advances in artificial intelligence that we are achieving in Android and take them to the portable format as quickly as possible and also get the laptop and the rest of the Android ecosystem to function fluidly together. What we are basically doing is to take the experience of Chromeos and reconfigure the underlying technology about Android. That combination is something that excites us very much for next year and we are working with you and others in it. We can’t expect. ‘
Neither Qualcomm nor Google have detailed more how they are collaborating in this operating system. But Qualcomm not only manufactures the most popular Android processor for high -end mobiles – at the conference he presented the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 That we probably see in the next Samsung Galaxy – but also produces chips for PC, of which there were new models.
The company also announced the Snapdragon X2 Elite and ELITE Extremestating that they are the most efficient processors available for Windows PCs. It would not be uncommon to see them by enhancing the teams with Android for PC in 2026.
It is inevitable that this project reminds of Chromebookthat they have found a niche market as economic laptops for students, but that are not competition for those who use Windows or Apple. However, this project is born from Google’s collaboration with one of the most important chips manufacturers and dominates ARM architecture as few. It will be interesting to see how they adapt an operating system designed to interact tactilly to the PC format and what changes have to make on Android.