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Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 may power future Chromebooks
August 08, 2025
TheSnapdragon 845 platform, Qualcomm’s latest 64-bit chipset, was revealed in Hawaii earlier in December. It’s built on Samsung’s10nm LPP FinFETprocess technology and it’s is expected to power a number of 2018’s most powerful phones. A recent discovery in theChromium repositorysuggests it may also power some of the next Chromebooks, too.
The Chromium repository is the codebase where the open source files and documentation for Chrome lives. It’s maintained by Google and aims to help third-parties create products for the Chrome OS. Yesterday, the folks over atXDA Developersspotted references to a new board overlay there, called “cheza,” for a reference device that would work alongside a chip known as“chipset-qc845.”This is believed to denote the Snapdragon 845, and it’s a moniker that appears several times throughout the repository, whileQualcomm is also specifically mentioned.
This would be the first Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered Chromebook to hit the market, followingspeculation(which originated from Google employees) that Qualcomm wouldn’t be involved in the Chromebook market due to its reluctance to deliver long-term Chromebook support.
Things might have changed since those reports, however, as Qualcomm recentlyannounced supportfor Windows laptop systems (the first of which were just seenearlier this month). These computers are said to come with up to 25-hour battery life and house LTE connectivity — features that would also go down well on Chromebooks.
Though the new Chromium commits don’t necessarily mean that a Snapdragon-powered Chromebookisin the works, it’s a firm indication; let us know if you’d be interested in such a product in the comments.
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