Chipmaker Intel on a China Partnership Drive

(Beijing) – Semiconductor giant Intel Corp. is betting that partnerships with small Chinese vendors will help it win tablet and smartphone components markets at the heart of the consumer migration to mobile Internet.

Partnerships with more than a dozen of little-known, minor-brand companies have been set up since executives from Silicon Valley-based Intel started traveling to cut deals in Shenzhen, an electronics manufacturing hub in southern China, about two years ago.