China-based PC player Malata plans to start the mass production of its e-book readers in August and will offer both Wintel and ARM-based designs, according to the company.

Malata currently has five factories and two R&D centers in China and has a total of 20,000 employees. In addition to design, the company is also capable of supplying PCBs and PC related components in house.

Since the company is offering attractive quotes for notebooks that feature similar industrial designs as first-tier brands, the company has already received several regional brands' orders in the US and Europe.

Although netbook demand has already slowed down, the company will continue pushing new netbook products and will launch the new dual-core Atom model as well.