Google names hardware partners for Chrome OS
Leading vendors sign up - but no sign of Dell.
By Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service | Published: 05:23, 09 July 2009
Google has already started working with vendors to develop devices around the new Chrome OS, according to a Google blog post.The company named a list of PC vendors including HP, Lenovo and Taiwan's Acer and Asustek Computer. Noticeably absent from the list was Dell.
Google also listed three mobile phone chip developers in the posting, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Freescale Semiconductor. The world's biggest chip maker, Intel, was not on the list.
"The Google Chrome OS team is currently working with a number of technology companies to design and build devices that deliver an extraordinary end user experience," the Google posting said.
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HP could not immediately be reached for comment.
The new Chrome OS will compete against Microsoft Windows in netbooks, laptop computers and desktops. Google is developing the Linux-based operating system for heavy Internet users, and it will begin appearing in netbooks in the second half of 2010, the company has said.
