- We listen to more details about Android Chromeos updates at Snapdragon Summit 2025
- Snapdragon chips will feed Chromebooks with the new operating system
- The Qualcomm CEO, Cristiano Amon, called the “amazing” operating system
Qualcomm has just organized Snapdragon Summit 2025, and the senior vice president of Google platforms and devices, Rick Osterloh, took the stage to talk more about Android integrated into Chromeos, with the Qualcomm CEO calling Android based on “incredible” computer.
For a long time there have been rumors that Google will combine more closely to Chromeos with Android, here is an article that we wrote almost a decade ago on the subject, but in an interview with us earlier this year, the president of Android Ecosystem of Google, Sameer Samat, officially revealed that Google “will combine Chromeos and Android on a single platform.”
Since Google manufactures both operating systems, they were already very closely linked, but Google plans to go beyond linking the platforms and really building chromeos in addition to Android.
As Rick Osterloh of Google said in Snapdragon Summit 2025 (through 9to5google), “we are building a common technical basis for our PC products and desktop computer systems.” This, says Google, will allow you to better take advantage of your AI developments in its ecosystems by simplifying the efforts of its software engineers. Instead of building the integration of Gemini for the integration of Android and Gemini for Chrome, you just need to do the job once.
The closest integration should also mean that Android applications can be executed natively in Chromeos instead of trusting a Android virtual machine emulator, as has been the case so far.
We still have to see what the new and improved that chromeos will have reserved, but the Qualcomm CEO clearly has, saying: “It is incredible. I think it offers the vision of conversions into mobile devices and PC. And I can’t wait to have one.” According to comments at the summit, what we will see will depend on the Qualcomm PC chips sets, and could arrive sooner rather than later.
Praising high praise, although comments such as this must obviously be taken with a pinch of salt: Qualcomm is closely associated with Google in Chromeos and other projects such as Android XR. He has skin in the game and, therefore, it is unlikely that he will collect any criticism for his partner’s efforts.
However, as I mentioned, hopefully, these comments mean that the new Chromeos is almost ready to see daylight, and that we can judge the operating system for ourselves. We have our crossed fingers and we are ready to give our thoughts as soon as we can test the new operating system.
