After starting off as a maker of calculators and telephones, Inventec has since diversified into the laptop industry and is now an industry-leading original equipment manufacturer.

It used to provide services to Xiaomi Corporation, the mainland's largest mobile phone shipper.

Xiaomi is expected to roll out its first laptop in the first quarter of 2016. And Inventec edged out OEM market giant Hon Hai, better known as Foxconn Technology Group, to bag Xiaomi's contract for its new laptops.

Lei Jun, founder and CEO of Xiaomi, is also Kingsoft's chairman. Lee is on record that Inventec's cooperation with Xiaomi will go beyond mobile phones.