Google confirms plans to merge Android and ChromeOS, PCs and telephones

Up till now, Google’s Android working system has been restricted to smartphones, tablets, good TVs, and smartwatches/wearables (as Put on OS). There’s additionally Android Auto, which is utilized in automotive infotainment methods. Android hasn’t but been used to energy laptops or desktop PCs… however that’s more likely to change quickly.

Rick Osterloh, Google’s SVP of Gadgets and Companies, introduced at Snapdragon Summit 2025 that Google is wanting into merging Android with ChromeOS and convey its Gemini AI to PCs. The trouble, often called “Undertaking Aluminium,” will most likely contain Android notebooks powered by Qualcomm processors.

Osterloh mentioned on stage:

“Up to now, we’ve at all times had very completely different methods between what we’re constructing in PCs and what we’re constructing in smartphones, and we’re working to mix that.

And I believe that that is one other approach that we are able to leverage all the nice work we’ve been doing collectively on our AI stack… carry Gemini fashions, bringing our assistant, bringing all of our utility and developer neighborhood into the PC area.”

So Google needs to create a single ecosystem that mixes the worlds of PCs, notebooks, smartphones, and tablets. Google has so far developed separate working methods for these completely different gadgets, together with the aforementioned Android and ChromeOS.

Finally, merging ChromeOS and Android right into a single working system would imply a standardized consumer expertise and shared platform on which cell and desktop gadgets might then work collectively seamlessly and with out interruption.