“Google is working on inductieladen and reversible usb connector for Chromebooks’

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On the Chromium OS discussion group, information is published about a new development board that wireless charging by means of induction supports. In addition, the system has a usb 3.1 type c connector and a 64-bit Nvidia chipset.

The posting about wireless charging on the Chromium OS discussion group was picked up by Reddit-user Basmith7, after Google employee François Beaufort said earlier on the arrival of a new Chrome OS board be. The board code-named Ryu, the name of one of the characters of Street Fighter.

From the various postings on the discussion group implies that Google Ryu inductieladen has activated, but there is also a connection for a normal power supply. The device has a folding screen and a light bar, a strip of coloured leds which Google previously in the back of the screen of the Chromebook Pixel is integrated.

In addition, usb 3.1 connector type-c is present. This supports speeds of up to 10Gbit/s and fit new plugs in also vice versa fit. Finally, there are many indications to find that the board uses an Nvidia Tegra chipset with support for 64bit instructions. In the postings is the indication Tegra132 called, what indicates that the to the 64bit ARMv8 version of the K1 soc, codenamed Denver, which Nvidia itself previously announced.

The work on the development board are several things indicate that Google may simply be working for testing purposes, it can be a referentiebord where manufacturers are coming to Chrome OS-products on base, and it can be to own product of Google, such as new Chromebook Pixel.

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