Your next Chromebook could include a dedicated GPU

Your next Chromebook could include a dedicated GPU

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  • Chromium OS source code hints at a Chromebook with a dedicated GPU.
  • “Mushu” would mate an AMD Vega-based discrete chip with an Intel 10th Gen Core processor.
  • Speculation suggests it might be a Steam-ready Chromebook meant for gaming.

You probably don’t think of Chromebooks as gaming machines unless you’re a Stadia fan, but that might change before long. Chrome Unboxed has discovered Chromium OS source code hinting at a Chromebook with a dedicated GPU — the first known Google-powered laptop to pack that kind of graphics power.

The Chromebook, codenamed Mushu, would use an AMD Vega 12-based GPU — not the integrated Vega 11 you find in certain processors. Mushu would pair the graphics chip with a 10th Gen Intel Core processor, but it wouldn’t involve one of Intel’s briefly available hybrid CPUs with AMD video.