The government of Chengdu City, western China, has been developing the city as a large PC production park, with a goal of attaining an aggregate capacity of 100 million PCs a year, consisting of 72 million tablet ones and 28 million notebook and desktop ones, in October 2011, China-based CBN Daily website cited mayor Ge Hong-lin as saying.

Dell, China-based vendor Lenovo and Taiwan-based ODM makers Foxconn, Compal Electronics have established operational or production bases in Chengdu, the source noted. Foxconn expects to turn out 20 million tablet PCs in 2011 and 100 million ones in 2013, while Compal will increase annual production capacity to 55 million notebook PCs eventually.

Wistron, another Taiwan-based ODM maker, started development of its production base at planned total investment of over US$500 million in Chengdu on February 11. The base will produce notebook PCs, smartphones and other types of terminal devices, with factory buildings to be completed in the third quarter of 2011 and annual capacity to reach 10 million units by the end of 2012 and 40 million in 2016.