New code found in Chrome OS suggests that Google is adding support for RGB keyboards, a feature generally associated with gaming. More importantly, the evidence suggests that Google updated the code in preparation for the yet-to-be-released full Chromebooks, not peripherals with RGB keyboards.
Google has added RGB keyboard support to Chrome OS for at least two unreleased Chromebooks codenamed "Vell" and "Taniks". They appear to be developed by Quanta and LCFC for HP and Lenovo respectively, and as far as we know have no connection to Samsung. Although the codenames are unrelated to Samsung, it's clear that the company has been focusing on the gaming market lately, with its recent releases of course including the AMD-powered Exynos 2200 chipset and the Gaming Hub platform.
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Last year, Samsung launched Galaxy Book Odyssey with RTX 3050 Ti graphics processor. With that in mind, the possibility of Samsung using this new RGB keyboard feature in Chrome OS for a future, and therefore its first, gaming Chromebook should not be ignored. Nvidia, which is behind the RTX 3050 Ti, then showed off the RTX 3060 on the Kompanio 1200 chipset based on the ARM architecture last summer. And it is this one that is to be used in some future high-end Chromebooks.
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If Samsung wants to compete with others in this portable notebook market and gain some additional importance beyond the gaming realm, it could find a way to use the graphics capabilities of AMD or Nvidia for its own gaming Chromebook. Last but not least, Chrome OS could soon get Steam, which is of course one of the biggest game platforms in the world. So with a growing number of developers seeming to be getting more interested in developing content for Chromebooks, we're definitely looking forward to Samsung's next move. After all, it would be nice to have a high-end smartphone with a gaming laptop of the same brand, which in turn could benefit all the more from the company's existing ecosystem.
