Google adds support for Nvidia Tegra X1 soc to Chrome OS

Google is in the process of adding support for the Nvidia Tegra X1 soc to Chrome OS. That could indicate that Chromebooks will appear with this 64bit ARM soc on board. There are no such Chromebooks until now.

The commits indicating support for the Tegra X1 are on Coreboot, Toms Hardware discovered. The commits speak of an Nvidia T210, the type number for the Tegra X1. Until now, few Chromebooks with ARM processors appeared on the market.

Nvidia presented the X1 in January. The soc has eight ARMv8 processor cores, based on Cortex A57 and Cortex A53. In addition, a Maxwell GPU is present, which according to the manufacturer is the first mobile GPU to have 1 teraflops of computing power when processing 16-bit floating point numbers.

Whether and when Chromebooks will appear with the Tegra X1 is still unknown. The next logical moment is after the summer, when the IFA electronics fair takes place in Berlin. There, many manufacturers present products that will reach the store this autumn.

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