The Chinese outfit holds 5.6 percent of the smartphone market in Q2 2015 and was behind Samsung, Apple and Huawei. Xiaomi was larger than Lenovo in the Q2 2015 and this company now wants to start making notebooks.

According to the Taipei Times Richard Lee, chairman of manufacturer Inventec has confirmed that the company will be assembling Xiaomi's first laptop. Xiaomi laptop should start shipping in first two quarters of 2016.

Xiaomi has 200 million registered users and its  Xiaomi 4C, which has the high end Snapdragon 808 SoC, is out and selling for1299 yuan / $204 or 182 Euro. The company used the same event to announce Mi mobile, a  mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) business model. It is certain that many of its 200 million registered customers might go for a laptop.

The company went into tablet market in 2014 with Mi Pad with a 2048x1546 screen, Tegra K1 processor and $240 price tag.  It flogged quite a few of them. We heard that sales was not as great as company expected but it is really hard to find any sales data.  This tablet is currently selling at many china based web shops starting at 175 Euro for XIAOMI MiPad 7.9" Retina Screen Android 4.4 NVIDIA Tegra K1 Quad-core 16GB Tablet PC. It is a shame that it never got a 5.0 or 5.1 update.

We will see how the Xiaomi does with notebook. It is not clear if the company plans to use X86 with Intel or AMD or one of the many ARM based products. The notebook could be a Chromebook too, but we will have to wait and see.