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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Coje_He for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com July 26 news, according to foreign media 9to5google reported today, in the latest code changes released by Fuchsia OS, the team has marked all smart speaker hardware as "not supported", and completely deleted the relevant code.

In the "does not support the system" related hardware list, including Nest Mini, Nest Audio, Nest Wifi Point, etc., but Nest Hub series of smart displays are not affected by this change for the time being.

According to 9to5google analysis, one of the reasons why the Nest series intelligent speakers do not support the Fuchsia system may be that the Jingchen A113L chip used in the unknown device code-named "Clover" (said to be the base of the Pixel Tablet tablet computer) does not meet the strict requirements of the Fuchsia system for CPU.

CTOnews.com previously reported that in the past few years, Google has updated its original Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max smart speakers, which are supported by Fuchsia rather than the original "Cast OS." In recent months, two upcoming Google devices, both smart speaker devices, have been added to the Fuchsia code. One appears to be a low-end device, which could be a Pixel Tablet docking station with speakers or a third-generation Nest Mini, while the other looks like a complete new Nest Audio product that supports UWB connectivity.

Google's next flagship Nest speaker is likely to be the first device to install Fuchsia by default, which is expected to be launched in the fall of 2023 or the spring of 2024.

However, earlier this year, Google announced massive layoffs and is expected to lay off 12000 employees from the company. According to the New York Times, a large number of Google employees in charge of the Fuchsia OS operating system have been included in the wave of layoffs. Of the 400 people involved in the project, at least 16% were fired, while Google's overall layoffs accounted for about 6% of all employees, so Fuchsia OS's layoffs are a large proportion.

Before the layoffs, Google Fuchsia OS, after at least six years of development, has been developed for the Nest Hub series of smart displays and is ready for use in other upcoming devices. As a non-Linux-based operating system, Fuchsia OS is based on a new microkernel called Zircon and is expected to support running Android and Linux applications.

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