Seeking Control of Technology, G.M. Will Build Its Own Research Center in China
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General Motors said the research center, to be built in Shanghai, would focus on developing hybrid technology and other designs.
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General Motors Corp. inaugurated a new engine plant at its minicar factory SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Co. in southern China on Monday.
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Google technology will power China.com's online search engine under the terms of a partnership announced.
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With an improved particle accelerator, China sees Âgolden opportunitiesÂ for collaborative research.
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Soft-drink giant sets up lab space in conjunction with China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences to work on beverages that incorporate traditional medicine ingredients.
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(InfoWorld) - Industrial computer maker AdvantechÂ is doing so well in China that it plans to build a sprawling research, development and marketing campus there to make the country its second "home base," despite opposition by Taiwanese officials. The Taiwan government has urged local companies for years to keep their global headquarters, R&D and marketing in Taiwan, even as theyÂ rushed to set up new manufacturing facilitiesÂ in China. Advantech exemplifies an aggressive new attitude among Taiwanese companies that are looking across the straits to their neighboring giant as a way to achieve dramatic growth. Advantech heeded the government at first, but an increase in its profits from China and the possibility of turning the country into a vast, second "domestic" market have proved too alluring. "We're Chinese, no matter what the politicians might say. Building China as a home market is imperative for our growth," said Dora Chang, chief financial officer of Advantech, during an interview with reporters in Taipei. Investing in China is a sticky issue for Taiwanese companies, due to political differences between Beijing and Taipei andÂ excessive regulations. In recent years, Taipei has sought to avoid being swept up into China's economy even as its growth has fuelled profits for technology companies on the island, both by lowering costs and providing a much wider market. The hesitance to open the investment floodgates to China has been caused by years of political bickering and a bloody civil war. Taiwan split from China in 1949, and Beijing has viewed the island as a renegade province ever since. The two have never reconciled, and Taiwan's move towards democracy has increased calls for outright independence, an idea China has vowed to crush, violently if necessary. But the opening of China's economy has created new opportunities for Taiwanese companies. It's Taiwan's favorite destination for overseas investment, to the tune of about $150 billion over the past two decades, despite efforts by Taipei to persuade companies to invest elsewhere in Asia. The shared language and culture between people in the two economies has been key to the investment flow, and has led Taiwanese companies to account for about 60 percent of China's technology output, according to Taiwanese officials. And after profiting for years from the low costs of labor, land rent, taxes and other incentives in China, Taiwanese companies are seeing a huge uptake in demand for their products from the local market. Advantech, for one, has been selling computers in China for major projects such as the massive Three Gorges Dam, as well as for toll roads and other works. The company is also finding ready buyers of its electronic cash registers at Chinese gas stations, another huge market. It is now looking to China as a second domestic market, one far bigger than Taiwan, and one that can help it grow into a far bigger company. Many Taiwanese firms see the success of big U.S. companies as being at least partly due to their huge domestic market. It's an advantage that U.S. companies can use to help them grow into multi-billion dollar behemoths before tackling overseas markets, where strong capital backing is essential. Many Taiwanese hope China can offer them the same advantage. Advantech will start construction of the Shanghai campus, which Chang called it's "second global headquarters," later this year. By the time it's complete and fully staffed, it will employ about 1,000 workers, increasing the size of Advantech by a third. The company stands to benefit immensely from the project. Advantech develops its own products and customizes industrial computers for customers as well, resulting in a gross margin of about 45 percent per year, almost unheard of for a Taiwanese company. The island's contract laptop makers squeak by on a gross margin of around 5 percent or 6 percent. Advantech hopes China will be the key to it growing someday into a multi-billion dollar giant.
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New center pits supercomputing, advanced math, data mining and management consulting against business problems.
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(InfoWorld) - Google will open a research and development center in Shanghai, stepping up its effort to build a bigger search business in China. Google hasÂ struggled in ChinaÂ to create the dominance it enjoys elsewhere in the world. It took 19 percent of the country's search market revenue in the first quarter, compared with 57 percent for market leader Baidu.com, according to Analysys International, a telecom research and consulting company. A spokeswoman for Google in China, Marsha Wang, confirmed the plans for an R&D lab Friday. She declined to say how many people it will employ or provide other details. Google and its U.S. rivals, Yahoo and Microsoft, haveÂ faced political difficulties in China, for agreeing to censor search results. In addition, their services are sometimes hard to access from inside the country. Yahoo's Flickr division said this week that its service was being blocked in China. Â
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By STEPHANIE HOO     JIUQUAN, China  -- Rising space power China provided a rare peek into its top-secret launch center Wednesday, capitalizing on its recent success in orbit to promote the military-funded project as a lure for foreign investment and a key to growing prosperity.    A police car with flashing lights led busloads of international journalists across northwestern China's vast Gobi Desert to the Jiuquan space center, past armored patrol vehicles and a sign, in English: "Foreigners are not allowed to enter without permission."    It was the first time China let foreigners enter, though officials forbade photographs of the command-and-control center with its rows of computer screens or the mammoth assembly hall where workers built the spacecraft that lifted China's first astronaut into orbit last October...
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Now with centralized management of their more than 1000 Mac, PC and UNIX computers, scientists at the University of Maryland&#146;s College of Life Sciences have more freedom than ever to focus on their research. For many of them, the Mac platform is all they need. [Dec 16]
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BEIJING -- Cisco Systems Inc. plans to open a research and development (R&D) center in Shanghai that will focus on developing VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technology, the company's chief executive officer (CEO) said Thursday.
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A financial portal is born in China.
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The dominance of Google in the search space is almost written in stone in North America, but there may yet be some populous spots in the world where the market is wide open. Now its main Chinese competitor has launched a new assault.
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Intel's Corporation Technology Group will focus on enterprise and consumer electronics, with its India Research Center handling much of the R&D.
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By Eric Auchard and Daniel Sorid BEIJING  - Cisco Systems Inc.  Chief Executive John Chambers said China was well on the way to becoming the world's technology hub as he revealed plans for his company's first research center in the country.
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By Jonathan B. Cox, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 18--Second of three reports   In China, where weavers and assemblers have cobbled together the fastest-growing major economy on Earth, the government is pushing beyond manufacturing. It wants innovation.
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The Intel Corporation has received approval to build a $2.5 billion chip plant in China amid the countryâs booming demand for chips used in personal computers and cellphones. The factory is planned for the northeastern city of Dalian, according to the cabinetâs National Development and Reform Commission, the countryâs top economic planning agency. Intel officials in Beijing and at the company headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., declined to comment, saying no formal announcement had been made.