VIA to manufacture mobile phone chips?

An interesting blog on the Wall Street Journal has caught my eye. Matthew Rivera has spoken with a VIA VP Richard Brown about how VIA, a Taiwanese company, sees business with mainland China in the future. Brown suggests that VIA will branch out into other areas such as mobile phones, and possibly work with smaller Chinese companies which they see as having potential to become major players in the furture.
"To Via, the shanzai look like the kinds of companies that could mature into big players in a few years, which is why it’s beginning to build more than just semiconductors. Via is now working with other manufacturers to build cellphone hardware ... "