How did I miss this? HP returns to the calculator business

Late last year HP announced some new graphing calculators, and their Calculator Product home indicates they are producing their full range of calculators icluding the delightfully old school looking financial range.

It is a matter of record that I love my HP48 calculator, and I bemoaned the loss of calculators in the new "HP +/- invent". I can't find it in this blog, so it must have been pre-blog2.0. Can anyone remind me whether HP stopped producing calculators alltogether?

I have even been known to dabble in programming the Saturn processor based calculator, soo it is with interest that II note on this hpcalc.org article that the new range is based on a fast embedded processor running some form of Saturn emulation layer. Also noted in the article is that HP +/- invent has outsourced the inventing to Kinpo Electronics, Inc. of Taiwan who also manufacture for Citizen, Canon, Sharp and Magellan among others.

Newsflash

Further investigation has revealed that HP +/- invent has found an even cheaper place to outsource their inventing to. For the sum total of $11,000 in prizes, HP +/- invent is running a "Design a calculator" competition. Sounds like fun tho—too bad it's capped at year 12 students!