Google is preparing to translation of smart speakers Nest Audio to OS Fuchsia

Google is working over the translation of smart speakers Nest Audio on a new firmware based on Fuchsia OS. Fuchsia firmware is also planned to be used in new Nest smart speakers, the sale of which is expected in 2023. Nest Audio will become the third device supplied with Fuchsia – earlier the Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max photo frames have already been transferred to this platform. The transition to a new system will be invisible to users, since the methods of interaction with the device and functionality will not change.

Fuchsia OS has been developing Google from 2016, taking into account deficiencies in the scaling and ensuring security available in the Android platform. The system is based on the micro-yref=”https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/kernel/”> zircon , based on the developments of the project LK , expanded for use on various classes of devices, including smartphones and personal computers. Zircon expands LK support for processes and divided libraries , user level, system processing system based on capability . Drivers are realized in the form of dynamic libraries operating in the user loaded by the Devhost process and controlled devices manager (DEVMG , Device Manager).

For Fuchsia, its own graphic interface written on the DART FREMWER FLUTTER. The project is also developing a framework for constructing user interfaces Peridot, Fargo package manager, standard library libc , a rendering system escher , vulkan drive magma , composite manager SCenic , file systems minfs, Memfs, Thinfs (FAT in the language of GO) and Blobfs, as well as the manager of the FVM sections. To develop applications

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