According to Chromeunboxed reports, the highly anticipated Chromebook project equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c + third-generation chips has been cancelled, which means that we will not be able to see this powerful device with excellent battery life. performance of ARM processors on Chromebooks. On the other hand, the Chromebook tablet project of MediaTek MT8188 chip is still in steady progress and is expected to be launched in the near future.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c + third-generation chip was released in December 2021. It is manufactured using a 6nm process. It is the first 6nm PC processor (the previous generation 8nm). 60%, GPU performance increased by up to 70%. Previously, multiple development boards were exposed during the development process, including “Herobrine”, “Evoker”, “Zombie”, “Senor”, “Piglin”, “Hoglin” and “Villager” (Note: All Snapdragon 7c+ Gen 3 boards are named after Minecraft characters). However, a few commits have recently surfaced in the Chromium codebase showing that these boards have all been abandoned without explaining why.
Meanwhile, the Chromebook tablet project with the MediaTek MT8188 chip continues. One main development board called “Geralt” is known to be in testing, and there may be other variants in development.
The cancellation of the Chromebook project for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c + 3rd gen chip is a shame, as ARM processors have yet to reach their full potential in Chromebooks, combining great performance, battery life, and Android app compatibility. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c second-generation chip has already shown a lot of progress in devices such as the Lenovo Chromebook Duet 3 and Duet 5, so the outside world had expected to see the next-generation device to the next level, and now it seems that it may not be achieved.
