- We heard more details about Chromeos’ Android upgrades on Snapdragon Summit 2025
- Snapdragon Chips Driver Chrombooks with the new Operating System
- Qualcomm’s CEO Cristiano Amon called us “incredible”
Qualcomm just hosted the Snapdragon Summit 2025, and Google’s senior vice president of platforms and units Rick Osterloh went to the stage to talk more about Android, which was integrated into Chromeos with Qualcomm’s CEO, who called the computer-based Android “Incredible.”
There have long been rumors that Google will combine Chromeos with Android – here is an article we wrote almost a decade ago on the topic – but in an interview with us earlier this year, Google’s president of the Android Ecosystem, Sameer Samat, officially revealed that Google “will combine Chromeos and Android into a single platform.”
Given that Google manufactures both operating systems, they were already very closely linked, but Google plans to go beyond connecting the platforms and actually building Chromeos on top of Android.
As Google’s Rick Osterloh said on Snapdragon Summit 2025 (via 9to5Google), “We build together a common technical foundation for our products on PCs and Desktop Computing Systems.” This, Google says, will allow it to better utilize its AI developments across its ecosystems by simplifying the efforts of its software engineers. Instead of building Gemini integration for Android and Gemini integration for Chrome, it just has to do the work once.
Closer integration should also mean that Android apps can be native to Chromeos rather than relying on an Android Virtual Machine emulator, as has been the case so far.
We have not yet seen what the new and improved Chromeos will have in store for us, but Qualcomm’s CEO has clearly says, “It’s incredible. I think it delivers the vision of conversions in mobile and PC. And I can’t wait to have one.” Based on comments at the summit, what we will see will rely on Qualcomm’s PC chipset, and it may come sooner than later.
High praise, although comments like this should of course be taken with a pinch of salt – Qualcomm collaborates closely with Google on Chromeos and other projects such as Android XR. It has skin in the game and will therefore unlikely to charge some criticism on his partner’s efforts.
Although, as I have mentioned, hopefully these comments mean that the new Chromeos are almost ready to see the light of day and that we can judge ourselves for ourselves. We’ve got our fingers crossed and are ready to give you our thoughts as soon as we can try the new OS.
