Google’s customized Chromebook CPUs might come as quickly as 2023

Google’s customized chips might broaden previous the Pixel 6 to Chromebook laptops and tablets as early as 2023, according to a new report from Nikkei Asia on the corporate’s increasing emphasis on designing its personal processors.

The firm is already making ready to launch its first main customized chip this fall, with the Pixel 6’s upcoming Tensor SoC. The report additionally traces up with rumors from 2020 that Google was planning in-house Chromebook chips after it debuted the idea on Pixel telephones — one thing we now know is occurring in a number of weeks.

But the Nikkei Asia report does observe a number of extra particulars, together with the aforementioned 2023 timing; a affirmation that, just like the Tensor chip, the Chromebook CPUs will likely be based mostly on Arm; and that Google is seeking to develop them for each laptop computer and tablet-style type elements.

The rumor doesn’t point out what Google’s plans are for its customized Chromebook chips. It’s been practically two years because it launched the Pixelbook Go (the one Google-made Chromebook that the corporate presently sells) and shut to 3 since its final pill, the lackluster Pixel Slate.

There aren’t a number of particulars on what Google hopes to perform with its Chromebook chips (for comparability, the corporate’s Tensor chip for Pixels appears to focus totally on AI efficiency), however the Nikkei Asia report does observe that the corporate was significantly impressed by Apple’s success in customized chips for each its iPhone and Mac merchandise. And whereas it’d nonetheless be years away from actuality, the thought of Google undertaking an analogous feat to Apple’s M1 chips for Chromebooks looks like a really intriguing risk.