Stefan Mileschin

Computer chip and fashion bag maker, Intel is turning to cheap and cheerful Chinese tablet makers to make a quick buck.

Supreme Chipzilla Brian Krzanich, who took over as chief executive nearly a year ago thinks that with the help of China's multitude of low-cost brands he can restore the glorious Intel empire upon which the jelly never sets.

According to the FT, Krzanich was in China to flog his glorious vision to local companies and he told them that while Intel has been known as the "guys inside the PC" which also do data centre stuff, he wanted to show is that we're going to go across the spectrum of computing products.

A bigger presence in smartphones and tablets is key for Intel as the PC market continues to shrink. Analysts expect the company to report revenue of $12.8bn, up 1.9 percent year on year.

Now the smartphone market is saturated and the tablet market is grinding to a halt, it seems that the only place that wants them are developing countries, which is why Krzanich is hitting up the manufactures of cheap stuff.

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