I\u2019m not saying that we\u2019ve given up on the hopes of seeing a Qualcomm-powered Chromebook arrive by CES but at this point, I\u2019m not holding my breath. The inexplicable delay of Snapdragon devices could very well help secure MediaTek\u2019s market share of the Chrome OS space as development moves forward on a number of octa-core MT8183 devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To date, we have been tracking four baseboards being built on MediaTek\u2019s unannounced chipset but this week, that number has literally doubled. Over the past two weeks, four devices built off of the \u2018Kukui\u2019 baseboard have been added to the Chromium repositories and are actively being developed. \u2018Damu\u2019, \u2018Kappa\u2019, \u2018Kakadu\u2019 and \u2018Juniper\u2019 are the four machines to join the lineup that already includes \u2018Kukui\u2018, \u2018Flapjack\u2018, \u2018Krane\u2018 and \u2018Jacuzzi\u2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, eight new Chromebooks may not seem that impressive in the grand scheme of things but we\u2019re expecting the latest MediaTek chipset to be a major improvement over the previous model that powered the Acer Chromebook R13 and a number of Lenovo devices. With the relatively lower cost of ARM processors, these improvements could result in a large number of cost-effective consumer and EDU Chromebooks, tablets and detachables that actually offer decent performance when compared to the older MediaTek chip and even the OP1 RockChip processor found in the Samsung Chromebook Plus V1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We don\u2019t have a lot of details on the four new MediaTek devices but we\u2019ll be digging into the commits to find out more as it arrives. Two of the Chromebooks are being produced by Bitland which has historically manufactured MediaTek devices for Lenovo. I suspect we\u2019ll see a number of Chromebooks in varying form-factors from Lenovo and hopefully other OEMs as time passes. The Chrome OS universe is expanding rapidly and it is exciting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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