New Tegra based smartbooks emerging from Acer and Lenovo with Chrome OS?

According to an exclusive retrieved by Shanzai.com from a “reliable” unnamed source, Acer and Lenovo plan to release a new operating system installed on a new form factor while running on a new platform. The rumor is that the manufacturers plan to release Nvidia’s Tegra based devices running Google’s Chrome operating system. It is expected that the targeted date of release could be as soon as the next couple of months.

Nvidia’s Tegra platform utilizes a low power ARM processor along with a high performance graphics chip. Google’s Chrome operating system was just announced this summer and Google indicated that it would not be ready for install on devices until sometime next year, but may be pre-released as early as the fall.

Although the story has yet to be officially confirmed by either Lenovo or Acer, it looks like the devices would likely get categorized as smartbooks. Smartbooks are a fairly new category of devices that fall somewhere between a smartphone and netbook.

Read: [Shanzai.com]