As the 64 bit pieces of stuff begin to all fall into place, the exact same-same bits of 64 bit stuff are falling in to both ChromeOS and Android on purpose, laying out interoperability at a very core level.
Ditto for the stuff in the Chrome Browser as is individually installed on many many different OS systems.
I find my "Google stuff" is coming up now automatically on my phone, on my desktop and on my iPad2 now, so much so that this past week I ordered a $10 stereo microphone for my desktop so I can talk in "Hey Google" instructions to my $80 refurb Linux/Dell hybrid desktop machine as well.
The talk to it stuff is all there already, so I might as well use it. Got a pink jack on my sound card, so might as well use that too.
Google may just go do it, such that it is all about the same stuff everywhere without making a big deal about the unification process until it is just about completed.
At Google Campus, there are no separate offices for the Android and ChromeOS boys any more, it is the same group of people sitting in the same office taking orders from the same bosses who are telling them to go do the same things at the same time in a very efficient manner.
When will it roll out? After the next released candy flavor the existing 32 bit 4.4.x rev stuff will no longer be allowed to go into the Play Store, so at that point in time the new flavor and the last gen 5.1 Lollipop stuff (both operating at 64 bit) will be the only official Android versions with new stuff going into the Play Store.
This would be the natural time for Google to "announce it" since Win 10 will maybe be out by then and you will know exactly what you have to beat for ease of use and the actual real features that are really actually factually going to be coming out of MS in Win 10.
It is funny, MS loudly and proudly announces "Cortana will coming out with Win 10" and "Hey Google" quietly goes live across the board on all products a few days before that with literally no fuss or announcements at all -- it is just there all over the place in the same week as the Big MS PR EVENT and the announcements about Cortana.
Google just goes and does it.
I love it when MS gets all braggy about their to be released stuff, because new Google stuff just pops up magically to make their future vaporware totally ho hum by the time it actually does get here. Please, MS, please go brag some more.
That quiet Google magic, I loves it I do ....
You do realize by the time Intel and MS actually releases any real near to being "reasonably priced" integrated consumer level products built at 14nm that both Samsung and Qualcomm and Apple will be on their 2nd and 3rd generations of real, actually shipped 14nm consumer products by that point in time?
General released ARM stuff has drifted from 28nm down to 14/16/20nm and all the old 28nm ARM lithography lines are getting converted one by one in a rotating fashion. Same newly renovated line can lay down Plain Jane planar 20nm very quickly for the very best cost position and
it can also run 16nm or 14nm FinFEET designs depending on how many additional lithography passes you are willing to put up with.
More passes, slower production rates, higher product loss values and
higher total cost.
The Intel 4% processor speed bump to be gained between 22nm and 14nm (using Intel's numbers, BTW) really isn't all that drastic, so major broad based ARM consumer products might just keep on being designed for a fast 20nm implementation level for a while and
everyone in ARM will continue to save all that low nm high production cost money.
Let Intel spray their billions & billions of bright red 14nm arterial blood $$$ all over things while just getting a measly 4% speed bump.
Mind you, some ARM processors are getting a 20% speed bump out of going from 28nm to the 14nm level, but they are also going to a new architecture at the same time which is part of the 20% real benefit they are getting. The Artemis and Maya generation from ARM HOLDINGS is out there in the real world now, but has not been publicised at all as it is "still proprietary" and will be held as top secret for the first year.
(Apple gets it all first as they own 30% of ARM HOLDINGS as Apple was one of the original creators of ARM HOLDINGS)
Intel jest loves hurting themselves so much that they will go spend
10s of billions of dollars to go shoot holes in their own feet .... running 14nm across the board whether it is ready or not or if it even makes sense to do it or not.