Intel hopes to help China reverse the technology brain drain through continuing investment in research and development and setting up laboratories in the mainland.
Last month the company announced plans to spend US$302 million to expand its chip-assembly and test plant in Shanghai, despite the global slump in the industry.
'We expect, over time, to continue the direction we've already started - to continue to invest in China,' said Robert Yung, Intel's chief technology officer for enterprise processor architecture.
'We look at China very positively, not just as consumers but also as vendors [who are] going to build the next generation of communication and computer infrastructure.'
The world's largest chip-maker also has a research centre and Internet exchange architecture development centre in Beijing, where Mr Yung is based, and an architecture development laboratory and application solution centre in Shanghai.
Last year it launched its third wireless competency centre in Beijing to promote development of wireless Internet technology through co-operation with local mobile telecommuncications businesses.
'With 1.3 billion people and a very low penetration of some of these technologies, there is big potential in terms of the number of consumers that would have a need for these technologies,' Mr Yung said.
