Acer To Acquire Gateway

Engadget is reporting that Acer will acquire Gateway (assuming all the regulatory approvals go forward) with the deal set to close somewhere towards the end of this year. Acer is the number 3 PC maker globally and Gateway is number 3 in the US. This will be interesting to follow from a Tablet PC perspective given that we haven’t heard much from Acer there in quite some time.

Here’s a link to the press release.