‘I’ve seen it, it’s incredible’: Qualcomm CEO hypes new desktop Android OS that sounds like a genuine game-changer

• We heard more details about ChromeOS' Android upgrades at Snapdragon Summit 2025
• Snapdragon chips will power Chromebooks with the new OS
• Qualcomm’s CEO Cristiano Amon called the OS "incredible"

Qualcomm just hosted Snapdragon Summit 2025, and Google’s senior vice president of platforms & devices Rick Osterloh took to the stage to talk more about Android being integrated into ChromeOS – with Qualcomm’s CEO calling the computer-based Android “incredible.”

There have long been rumors that Google will more closely combine ChromeOS with Android – here’s an article we wrote almost a decade ago on the topic – but in an interview with us earlier this year, Google’s president of Android ecosystem, Sameer Samat, officially revealed that Google is “going to be combining ChromeOS and Android into a single platform.”

Given that Google makes both operating systems, they were already very closely linked, but Google plans ...