Google Chrome OS might make an appearance pretty soon

Chrome OS netbooks to hit the Chinese market soon

     Google, the numero uno search engine till date, had announced a few months back that the ‘developer preview’ of its first ever operating system christened Google Chrome OS will be available by the end of this year i.e. 2009 and the complete operating system would be available by 2010.

But the world is full of surprises, the Chinese magicians in particular.

Did I mention Chinese magicians?

Yes, I did, just because China really is one heck of a magical place where anything can happen at any given time. Chinese love to travel in time machine which helps them bring the future to the present.  What the world expects to happen at a later stage, it happens there much before. An element of surprise awaits the whole world. Just as it sprung out of the recession blues much before the world did which was quite a surprise, now technological products are coming out the companies like never before.

The surprise that awaits the world is in the form of Chrome OS hitting the shelves by mid October!!

Shanzai.com, a Chinese website aimed at tracking the products, trends and reach of China's local to global tech culture, reported that devices running on Google Chrome OS will be available for shipping by mid October. This news seems enough to create waves in Microsoft plant which churns out Windows 7.

What I believe is that some Chinese manufacturers might use the pre release version of Google Chrome on some cheap hardware to meet the mid October deadline of shipping.

In related news, Shanzai.com mentions that devices powered by Loongson 2F Processor will use the chrome OS. The processor powers the Emtec Gdium Liberty netbook and is based on Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages (MIPS architecture) developed by China’s Academy of Sciences. As Loongson 2F processor is not an x86 processor, so it can’t run Windows and has to do with Linux or alternate operating systems, which makes Google Chrome an attractive option.

Integrating Google's Chrome on the Loongson-powered devices does have its share of a few plus points if not many. First of all, it is an excellent marketing strategy as Chrome operating system could draw more attention to a hardware platform which isn't the most popular in the industry. Secondly, the operating system which currently powers the Loongson 2F processor has not gone down well with the masses and now with Google Chrome powering the processor, it seems a welcome change.