Google Chrome is coming to Arm-powered Linux devices later this year

You tin download Chrome for Linux, and you tin download Chrome for Arm devices — but if you’ve sewage a machine moving Linux on Arm, not truthful much! Now, Google says it’s yet bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux machines successful Q2 2026, pursuing Chrome for Arm Macs successful 2020 and Chrome for Windows connected Arm successful 2024.

Why Arm + Linux now? In a blog post, Google only says that it “addresses the increasing request for a browsing acquisition that combines the benefits of the open-source Chromium task pinch the Google ecosystem of apps and features.” What we’re near wondering is whether Google’s talking astir existing demand, aliases request yet to come.

There’s surely a increasing request for Linux. Some Verge editors have begun to ditch Windows pinch varying degrees of success. But those are our x86 desktops — location isn’t a batch of consumer-facing Linux connected Arm chips, unless you count each the Linux-based Android phones retired there. You tin bargain Linux connected laptops from Dell, Lenovo, Framework, and such, but again, they usage x86 chips. (And if you’re not a consumer, there’s already Chromium.)

But 3 of the companies that really build Arm processors — Qualcomm, Nvidia, and Mediatek — whitethorn look to Linux arsenic they effort to compete pinch the Windows/Intel/AMD incumbents. Qualcomm told maine successful January that it sees “a batch of liking connected different operating systems” beyond Windows for its PC-grade Arm chips. Nvidia could uncover its N1 and N1X processors for Arm laptops arsenic soon arsenic adjacent week astatine its GTC 2026 developer conference.

While those Nvidia laptops mightiness get announced pinch Windows, it wouldn’t beryllium astonishing if they targeted Linux too, erstwhile the basics for illustration Chrome are sorted out. Google’s blog station specifically name-drops Nvidia’s DGX Spark arsenic a target for Chrome — those $4,000+ beefy micro AI desktops, sold by a wide array of the company’s partners, besides tally Linux connected Arm. Google says it’s putting Chrome into Nvidia’s package head to make installation easier; everyone other will person to spell to chrome.com/download erstwhile the browser arrives successful Q2.