Google did not mention processor especially when the presentation of its operating system for netbooks. The search engine has explained cons want to lower the price of these machines by maximizing the use of cloud.

The management of ARM processors was however never very far, Chrome OS being primarily an offshoot of the Ubuntu distribution of Linux. But when you throw a glance in the project, we can see a series of additions to the Samsung SoC S5PC110 and S5PV210. There is also code for the chips Qualcomm and Tegra 2 .

Specifically, we can expect from the ARM netbooks launch platform. It does not know if the tablets are cons to the agenda. While management Tegra seems to lean in that direction, as the addition of drivers for the multitouch screen, but the fact that touch screens Tegra has recently been removed from the project suggests that we wait for Google to master before netbooks enter this field.

However, one may ask whether a netbook ARM is not a very risky choice. Google is not the first and the other attempts before him have been only very limited success. The fact is that consumers do not imagine using something other than Windows on their computer and if a dual boot setup looks nice, it is possible that if the netbook has a processor x86/64 (Chrome OS already manages x86 CPUs, but not officially x64. While Google wants autonomy for 12 hours and SoC ARM is a good way to get there.

There is concern, though, that limit its platform has a machine that can not run Windows and Office, the two main applications of the average consumer with limited knowledge, promises to be a serious challenge for the popularity of the next OS.