Google Announces Chrome OS Partners

When Google announced their upcoming Chrome OS, they specifically said they would be working with manufacturers to get the OS out onto devices by the end of 2010. Today Google elaborated on just who those companies would be. They include a lot of big names, but there seem to be a couple obvious companies missing.

So far the list includes Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Toshiba, and Texas Instruments. Obviously this isn’t a final list and we certainly hope it expands because we don’t see Dell on there. Dell is one of the major competitors in the netbook market (Chrome OS’s target) and it would be a huge problem to miss such a large manufacturer.

Also missing is Sony, who just barely jumped into the netbook pool with the Vaio W. Of course, Sony is notoriously obsessed with proprietary stuff, so maybe they turned up their nose at Google. Intel is not on the list, but you don’t have to be a partner with Intel to work on its hardware. It’s obvious that Chrome OS will have to be compatible with Intel chips in order to cover a vast portion of the market, so I’m sure Google is already covering that end.

If the Chrome OS program starts gaining momentum, it will be interesting to see how much this list expands by 2010.

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