This didn’t take long at all. We predicted a few hours ago that CES will have plenty of companies displaying Google Chrome OS netbooks, and it looks like HTC may be one of them. According to SlashGear sources, HTC has consistently denied rumors of them working on tablets in the past few months, but CEO Peter Chou finally admitted to HTC’s engineers carefully looking at netbooks and the associated market. Rumor has it HTC will have several netbooks/tablets to show off at CES 2010 next week in private demos, and at least one of those netbooks will run Google Chrome OS.

HTC’s device will be based on a Qualcomm chipset, potentially the 1GHz Snapdragon chip that’s already in use in the HD2 smartphone, which is also power the upcoming Google Nexus One. Moreover, the tablet will have touchscreen and include new software from Adobe, potentially the Android flash plug-in. You might have noticed that we kept switching back and forth between netbook and tablet, and that’s because it’s unclear how HTC plans on marketing it. Or whether or not the upcoming HTC unit will even have a physical keyboard. Need we say the tablet wars are heating up.