The high-end smartphone market is approaching saturation worldwide, in terms of winning more mid-range and entry-level market share, in particular of China, many Taiwan mobile brands seek cooperation with China supply chain.

After Acer worked together with SIM, HTC and Asus all show willingness to work with Longcheer, Wingtech, and SIM. Smartphones that under their labels of China OEMs will be unveiled before first two quarters in 2014.

Intel is a leading brand in PC chips market, but fallen far behind after Qualcomm and MediaTek in mobile communications chips market. In the view of taking more market share in handset chips, Intel promised that will support Asus in product pricing, developing, and marketing, based on an earlier report.

Apart from that, Hewlett-Packard will unveil two entry-level smartphones lately, and it will be used Intel chips rather than MediaTek's, as well. Intel hence complete its smartphone chips' territory by allying with Asus, Lenovo, and Hewlett-Packard.

Source also indicated that Hewlett-Packard did seek help from Taiwanese OEMs, Compal and Wistron, but the price didn't match mutual agreement so that the orders still gone to BYD.