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SANTA CLARA - The Intel Corp. has unveiled plans to establish an Intel Innovation Center (IIC) in Taiwan, its first in Asia, to develop innovative networking communications products in partnership with local original development manufacturers.

Analysts believe the move has been spurred on by the proliferation of wireless networking products and applications made possible by Taiwan leaders such as D-Link Systems Inc. and ZyXEL Communications.

Craig Barrett, Intel's chief executive officer, was in Taipei last month to make the announcement which comes on the heals of numerous announcements by global technology leaders in 2003.

Intel will work with the Taiwan technology industry to create platform reference design solutions for convergence technologies in the areas of personal mobile computing, enterprise networking, broadband access, and digital home applications.
 
The Center's staff will consist initially of 25 engineers, growing to between 50 and 60 researchers over the next two years.
 
According to the director of the new Intel Innovation Center, Lin Long Song, four local companies have already joined Intel in conducting research to develop new communications products.
 
San Jose-headquartered Phoenix Technologies Ltd., the company driving the global core system software (BIOS) standard in hundreds of millions of PC systems and digital devices, has also said it will expand its operations in Taiwan.
 
Scheduled to open in October 2003, a new expanded facility will enable Phoenix to provide additional service and support for customers in the Asia-Pacific region.
 
Nine multinational corporations including Dell, HP, Sony, and IBM, have established research and development centers in Taiwan, according to Taiwanˇ¦s Council for Economic Planning and Development.

Hewlett-Packard has set up a product development center; IBM, an R&D center for computational biology and an R&D center for e-commerce; Sony, an information products R&D center and a large semiconductor (LSI) and module design and development center; and Dell its Dell Taiwan Design Center.

Both Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell Computer have recently set more aggressive plans to expand their research and development teams in Taiwan.

While HP expects to increase its Product Development Center (PDC) staff from 80-90 currently to around 200 by late 2004, Dell is gearing up to expand its Taiwan Design Center (TDC), with a target of reaching 60-70 staff this year.

HP closed its PDC in Singapore earlier this year and Taiwan is expected to play an even more significant role in the company's R&D efforts.

As HP's sole R&D center in Asia, the PDC in Taiwan has staff from 14 countries.

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