MediaTek now joins Intel and Qualcomm as the third silicon provider for Google's new Googlebook laptop platform, announcing the Dimensity CX C10 Max on 2026-09-21. Built on TSMC's 3nm process, the chip uses an "All Big Core" Armv9 octa-core CPU with one Cortex-X925 clocked at up to 3.73 GHz, three Cortex-X4 cores, and four Cortex-A720 cores, backed by 12 MB of L3 cache and 10 MB of system-level cache. The 11-core Arm Immortalis-G925 MC11 GPU handles graphics, while an NPU 890 accelerator delivers up to 55 TOPS across INT8, INT16, FP16, and BF16 workloads. MediaTek says the chip's power envelope is low enough for fanless, ultra-portable designs with all-day battery life.
On the I/O side, the C10 Max supports LPDDR5X memory at up to 9,600 Mbps, UFS 4.0 storage, Wi-Fi 7 at up to 7.3 Gbps, and Bluetooth 6.0. Display output covers up to 4Kp60 internally via DisplayPort or MIPI, and dual 4K external monitors through DisplayPort MST. Video decode handles 4Kp60 10-bit across HEVC, AVC, VP9, and AV1, with 4Kp60 encode in HEVC and AVC.
The Dimensity CX C10 Max will run Googlebook OS, the platform Google formally detailed on the same day. Codenamed Aluminium OS, it merges Android 17's application stack with ChromeOS's desktop shell, windowing, and verified boot chain. For developers and Linux users, the most notable feature may be its pKVM-based hypervisor, which provides a fully isolated Linux environment with terminal access, letting users pull Git repos, access local ports and networks, and run command-line tools without the old Crostini container setup that Chromebooks relied on. That environment is a full Debian install reached through the Terminal app, running on what Google describes as the first Level 5 security-certified hypervisor shipped on any laptop platform. Google is also promising 10 years of OS updates and Titan security chip support. Whether mainstream Linux distributions will gain independent support for the Dimensity CX silicon remains to be seen, as MediaTek's track record with mainline kernel upstreaming has historically required significant community effort.
Lenovo is expected to ship the first Googlebook powered by the Dimensity CX C10 Max. Googlebook pre-orders are already open for Intel Panther Lake and Snapdragon X Elite configurations starting at $899 (€830), with US availability from 2026-10-04 and other markets from 2026-10-05. Pricing for the MediaTek-equipped model has not yet been announced.
