July 22, 2005
Leading mobile makers Motorola and Nokia are presenting their new Taiwan-based research and development centers in July and August respectively. While Nokia's
R&D center will be its first in Taiwan, Motorola is opening its second, as it established its Product Development Center here in January 2004.
Motorola announced the establishment of its Technology Center in early July. This new center will focus on the development of broadband telecommunications. Its existing Product Development Center, which already employs one hundred people, conducts development work on semiconductors, mobile phone original design manufacturing and energy. Motorola says that its Technology Center is its first center outside of the United States to work on broadband telecommunications.
Motorola expects its Product Development Center to generate
NTD 80 billion in orders for Taiwan within the next three years. The mobile phone maker placed procurements of
USD 2 billion in Taiwan in 2004, nearly one time more than in 2003. It estimates it will make even more procurements, mainly of mobile phone components, this year.
Nokia's Taiwan
R&D center will primarily provide testing facilities to help local enterprises, such as content suppliers, mobile phone enterprises and systems developers, develop software for third generation mobile telecommunications applications. So far it has invested
NTD 410 million to set up testing facilities at this center.
(United Daily News)
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