Google confirms Chrome support for ARM64 Linux
Google says Chrome for ARM64 Linux will launch in Q2 2026, ending a long-standing gap in its desktop browser lineup. The company plans to offer official ARM64 binaries for Debian and RPM-based distributions, with downloads also available through chrome.com. This comes after Arm-native Chrome builds already arrived on macOS in 2020 and Windows in 2024.
The main reason Linux users never got official Chrome on ARM64 is that Google simply did not support that platform in its public Linux package matrix. Chrome’s own Linux requirements page has long listed supported distributions, but it also specified an Intel Pentium 4-class processor with SSE3, which made it an x86-only release in practice.
This launch marks a major milestone in our commitment to the Linux community and the Arm ecosystem. We look forward to seeing how developers and power-users leverage Chrome on this next generation of high-performance devices.
According to 9to5Google, detail Google highlighted is a partnership with NVIDIA around DGX Spark. The company says it is working with NVIDIA to make Chrome easy to install on the DGX Spark, which NVIDIA describes as a compact AI supercomputing system based on Grace Blackwell. That gives the launch a clear hardware tie-in beyond generic ARM64 Linux support.
Source: 9to5Google
