Report: Acer Launching Chrome OS Netbook

Acer is reportedly planning to launch a Chrome OS netbook in the second half of next year.

Digitimes today cites industry sources who say Acer has been planning since the summer a netbook running Google's Chrome OS and plans to launch the mini notebook in the second half of 2010.

The report is one of the first to surface about a vendor's plans to produce a netbook running solely on Chrome OS. Digitimes goes on to say that Acer chairman JT Wang also expressed his confidence that the company will be the first vendor to launch Chrome-based netbook in the market during a recent interview with Digitimes.

Read the full report here.