One of the standout announcements from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Maui is the long-awaited merging of Android and ChromeOS into a unified operating system designed specifically for PCs. This exciting development was confirmed by Google executives following Qualcomm’s keynote.

Google’s Sameer Samat, head of the Android Ecosystem, hinted at the timing during the event, saying it’s “something we’re super excited about for next year.”

Rick Osterloh, Google’s Senior Vice President of Devices and Services, elaborated on the project, stating, “We’ve embarked on a project to combine that. We are building together a common technical foundation for our products on PCs and desktop computing systems.”

“If you think about the laptop form factor, we’ve had ChromeOS for a long time and we’re super committed to that platform and it’s been really successful for us, we’ve learned a lot from it as well. We also have Android tablets that have been super successful, they’re becoming more productivity machines all the time. So I think the opportunity for us that we see is how do we accelerate all the AI advancement that we’re doing on Android and bring that to the laptop form factor as rapidly as possible, and also have the laptop and the rest of the Android ecosystem work seamlessly together.”

Osterloh concluded with a glimpse of the technical approach, saying, “So what we’re doing is we’re basically taking the ChromeOS experience and re-baselining the technology underneath it on Android. So that combination is something we’re super excited about for next year, and we’re working with yourselves and others on it, and we can’t wait.”

While the details of the collaboration between Qualcomm and Google remain under wraps, Qualcomm’s expanding role in PC chips is notable. The company recently introduced the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Elite Extreme processors, touted as the most efficient chips for Windows PCs.