Acer is denying rumours that the company is phasing out netbooks in favour of its new tablet range. In an interview with Computer World last week, Acer sales manager Lu Bing-hsian said the company plans to reduce its netbook range and focus on tablets because "that's the direction of the market". However, the company says that tablets will "find their space next to netbooks and notebooks" and it is not going to favour one form of PC over the other. Contrary to Bing-hsian's statements, Acer is not currently planning to manufacture devices based on Sandy Bridge processors.
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