Just recently, in a blog post on The Official Google Blog, the Mountain View, California-based search giant has announced the introduction of its upcoming Chrome OS, an open-source operating system that will be aimed at future netbooks and small-sized computer systems. Following said announcement, the company has just answered a couple of questions that emerged afterwards. In one of the answers, Google details a list of companies that are currently working with it in the development of the Chrome OS and the upcoming devices that will run the operating system.

 

According to a recent blog post on the Google Chrome Blog page, the new operating systems has drawn the attention of several companies in the IT industry, including some big players like Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Toshiba. As you can see for yourselves, these companies are among the leaders in their respective fields, which should enable a successful launch of the much-hyped Google Chrome OS.

 

ASUS, Acer, HP, Lenovo and Toshiba have already made their debut in the hugely successful market for ultraportable, lightweight and low-power computer systems, better known as netbooks. With the launch of said Google operating system, the upcoming models coming from these system vendors should provide users with a more affordable alternative to all the Windows-powered netbooks on the market. As for Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Freescale, these chip makers have recently joined hands for the development of a new PC segment, that of smartbooks, portable computer systems similar to netbooks but powered by ARM-based chips.

 

The Google Chrome OS will be a open-source operating system, initially targeted at netbooks and available for consumers in the second half of 2010. According to early details on the platform, most applications will be web-based, which will bring Google's approach to the netbook operating system closer to that of the 'cloud' concept.