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Google has reportedly canceled plans to launch Chromebooks with integrated Nvidia graphics. Last year, the company incorporated gaming-laptop-like features into some models, such as swappable RGB keyboards and high-refresh-rate displays. But all of these devices feature integrated GPUs and are therefore designed to work with streaming services like Nvidia’s GeForce Now and Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming. Since then, reports have surfaced that the Mountain View-based tech giant is exploring the idea of launching Chromebooks with dedicated GPUs.
Earlier this year, a Chromebook motherboard codenamed Hades hit the market spot Courtesy of 9to5Google, featuring a dedicated GeForce RTX 4050 GPU, similar to those used in some Windows gaming laptops. The chip could have been used as the basis for several PC makers building Chromebooks.
Now, according to to the developer Comment First spotted on Chromium Gerrit by About Chromebooks, the Hades board has been cancelled, along with two other Nvidia-equipped boards, Agah and Herobrine, suggesting that any laptops based on these boards won’t be in production.
It is speculated that Google may release a Chromebook with a dedicated GPU in the future.Most recent code patch disclose The existence of a board codenamed Aurora. The board is believed to be for internal Steam testing rather than an actual device, but it’s labeled as an RTX 3050 graphics card. As such, work may still be in progress to make Steam on ChromeOS compatible with dedicated GPUs.
Google also specifically reported that Cancel In addition to dropping plans for an Nvidia-based Chromebook, a Chromebook powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c+ Gen 3 SoC has also been developed, a project codenamed Herobrine. This suggests that no new ChromeOS tablets will be released in the foreseeable future.
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