Google’s Android PCs might be great, but this delay definitely isn’t
Google’s Android PCs might be great, but this delay definitely isn’t
https://www.pocket-lint.com/google-project-aluminium-might-not-arrive-anytime-soon/
Publish Date: 2026-02-04 17:31:00
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After years of speculation, Google officially confirmed its plans to merge Android and ChromeOS into a single, unified software stack back in July of last year. Since then, we’ve learned that the company’s internal efforts are being referred to as Project Aluminium, and, most recently, we’ve even gotten an accidental glimpse of an in-progress build of the platform.
Now, as per freshly uncovered court documents sourced from the US v. Google antitrust trial (via The Verge) we’re getting a better picture of the actual scope and scale of Project Aluminium, as well as details pertaining to the platform’s release timeline. These new filings indicate that Google’s roadmap involves getting Aluminium into the hands of testers as soon as late 2026, with a stable release arriving perhaps as late as 2028.
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Filed documents also reveal that the “timeline to phase out ChromeOS is 2034,” suggesting that Google will keep well on its promise to support existing Chromebooks for their entire ten-year lifespan. While the technical underpinnings of this operating system merger are doubtlessly complex from an engineering standpoint, the wind-down period for legacy ChromeOS appears to also be playing a very real role in Google’s slow-but-steady approach to bringing Aluminium to market.
