{"id":440896,"date":"2010-03-17T23:32:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T03:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/?p=10485"},"modified":"2010-03-17T23:32:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T03:32:27","slug":"applied-materials-in-xian-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/440896","title":{"rendered":"Applied Materials in Xian, China"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting article from NYT “China Drawing High-Tech Research From U.S.<\/a><\/strong>“,<\/p>\n

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For years, many of China\u2019s best and brightest left for the United States, where high-tech industry was more cutting-edge. But Mark R. Pinto is moving in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n

Mr. Pinto is the first chief technology officer of a major American tech company to move to China. The company, Applied Materials, is one of Silicon Valley\u2019s most prominent firms. It supplied equipment used to perfect the first computer chips. Today, it is the world\u2019s biggest supplier of the equipment used to make semiconductors, solar panels and flat-panel displays.<\/p>\n

In addition to moving Mr. Pinto and his family to Beijing in January, Applied Materials, whose headquarters are in Santa Clara, Calif., has just built its newest and largest research labs here. Last week, it even held its annual shareholders\u2019 meeting in Xian.<\/span><\/p>\n

[…] Now, Mr. Pinto said, researchers from the United States and Europe have to be ready to move to China if they want to do cutting-edge work on solar manufacturing because the new Applied Materials complex here is the only research center that can fit an entire solar panel assembly line.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you really want to have an impact on this field, this is just such a tremendous laboratory,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Xian \u2014 a city about 600 miles southwest of Beijing known for the discovery nearby of 2,200-year-old terra cotta warriors \u2014 has 47 universities and other institutions of higher learning, churning out engineers with master\u2019s degrees who can be hired for $730 a month.<\/p>\n

[…] Small clean-energy companies are headed to China, too.<\/p>\n

NatCore Technology of Red Bank, N.J., recently discovered a way to make solar panels much thinner, reducing the energy and toxic materials required to manufacture them. American companies did not even come look at the technology, so NatCore reached a deal with a consortium of Chinese companies to finish developing its invention and mass-produce it in Changsha, China.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese other countries \u2014 China, Taiwan, Brazil \u2014 were all over us,\u201d said Chuck Provini, the company\u2019s chief executive.<\/p>\n

[…] Applied Materials has greater challenges, including fighting technological theft, a chronic problem in China.<\/p>\n

The company has taken measures, including sealing its computers\u2019 ports here, to prevent the easy use of flash drives to record data. Employees are not allowed to take computers from the building without special permission, and an elaborate system of computer passwords and electronic door keys limits access to certain technological secrets.<\/p>\n

But none of that changes the sense that tectonic shifts are under way.<\/p>\n

When Xei Lina, a 26-year-old Applied Materials engineer here, was asked recently whether China would play a big role in clean energy in the future, she was surprised by the question.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of the graduate students in China are chasing this area,\u201d she said. \u201cOf course, China will lead everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Filed under: China<\/a>, investment<\/a>, Science & Technology<\/a>, united states<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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