Chinese Internet company Tencent has formed a strategic alliance with Intel and Razer to develop a new RazerSwitchblade handheld device with Tencent's games.

Taiwanese PC maker Acer will launch its online application store in 2011.

Intel has announced strategic cooperation with the Chinese video surveillance provider NetPosa, and will invest in the latter to develop the Chinese digital security surveillance market.

Intel has announced that it will cooperate with the Chinese Internet company Tencent to jointly develop the next-generation mobile Internet platform, MeeGo.

According to reports in foreign media, Chinese PC maker Lenovo has launched its new ThinkPad Edge series based on AMD's microprocessor and it is reportedly the first time for Lenovo to adopt AMD's chips in its notebook products.

Intel Capital, Intel's investment unit, has announced that it has invested USD25 million in seven companies, including two in China, to cultivate new technologies.

Intel has unveiled its "2008-2009 Intel China CSR Report" as part of its global corporate social responsibility reporting initiative.

Intel's Consumer Electronics Group has selected WANdisco's Subversion MultiSite to support over 1000 developers located at sites in China and the United States to overcome the problems of wide area network performance, reliability and availability.

Chinese electronics retailer Yongle said it will start to sell the G3 netbook, a customized convenient notebook developed by China Mobile, in its 63 retail stores in Shanghai from April 23, 2009.

Huawei Technologies has announced that it is cooperating with Intel to build a WiMAX interoperability testing laboratory in Beijing.

Intel has decided to cancel its Intel Developer Forum held in Taiwan from 2009 and the company will only hold such forums in Beijing and San Francisco, respectively.

The global financial crisis has hit Intel, as the company announced it will shift some assembly and test facilities from Shanghai to Chengdu, a move that will affect about 2,000 Intel employees in Shanghai.

According to information from the Open Handset Alliance, China's telecommunications manufacturer Huawei and 13 other companies, including Vodafone, Toshiba and Sony Ericsson, have jointed the alliance to lend support to the Android open source platform-based Google phone.

While visiting China for the fifth time, Paul S. Otellini, president and CEO of Intel (INTC), announced that Intel would invest USD170 million to improve its environmental protection and industrial chain innovation capacity in China.

Intel (INTC) has announced plans to build a Linux software center to assist Taiwan's local manufacturers in extending their notebooks and Internet terminals to the global market.