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High-Tech Research Moving From US To China

Posted by timothy on from the viewing-the-world-as-a-zero-sum-game dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that American companies like Applied Materials are moving their research facilities and engineers to China as the country develops a high-tech economy that increasingly competes directly with the United States. Applied Materials set up its latest solar research labs in China after estimating that China would be producing two-thirds of the world's solar panels by the end of this year and their chief technology officer, Mark R. Pinto, is the first CTO of a major American tech company to move to China. 'We're obviously not giving up on the US,' says Pinto. 'China needs more electricity. It's as simple as that.' Western companies are also attracted to China's huge reservoirs of cheap, highly skilled engineers and the subsidies offered by many Chinese cities and regions, particularly for green energy companies. Applied Materials decided to build their new $250 million research facility in Xi'an after the city government sold them a 75-year land lease at a deep discount and is reimbursing the company for roughly a quarter of the lab complex's operating costs for five years."

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  1. Re:But by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Africa is full of niggers. It was ok when white people were in charge but once they left, it went bad fast.

  2. Bullshit. Applied Materials can go fuck a baby by Jackie_Chan_Fan · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "We're obviously not giving up on the US,' says Pinto."

    Yeah right. You fucking traitors. Go fuck a baby, you have about as much ethics as a child rapist.

    WE CANT COMPETE WITH SLAVE LABOR WAGES... So Applied Materials has decided to sell out America and sell their products back to Americans at American prices using chinese labor...

    This scam has gone on long enough. Anyone doing this should be kicked out of the country and have their citizenship pissed on.

    Basically Applied Materials is saying "Have fun with your mcdonalds and stupid reality shows, you're all fucking dumb... but your not dumb enough to work for slave wages just yet... so we're packing it up and moving to china where we can exploit people... and probably fuck their underage children too because we're awesome at not giving a damn about anything except the DOLLAR...

    BTW... Lets not give them dollars... or euros.. or anything. Let them die. If they think they can rape us... fuck up.

    Suck it up and eat a tiny chinese dick.

    This country is done.

    1. Re:Bullshit. Applied Materials can go fuck a baby by Jackie_Chan_Fan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Mod me as flamebait..

      Suck a big fat fucking Applied Materials cancer riddled cock you fucking whale of a human behidn a keyboard... SLOB SLOB SLOB

      ok i'm losing it.

      hmmm happy place... happy place...

      FUCK ITS GONE..

      Fuck you and die of cancer clusters in your dick hole.

      And now that I got that off my chest...

      I feel better.

  3. Chinese Engineer != Western Engineer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yes there are sure to be some qualified engineers in China, but there is just no comparison to engineering programs at Chinese universities and those in the west. I think any company that is going to rely on them for innovation is going to be SOL.

    Yes you can find a good small team in China. On a large scale, this just is going to be a disaster. Unless they want their engineers memorizing things and rewriting them...

    1. Re:Chinese Engineer != Western Engineer by jet_silver · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      It ain't the engineering. It's the Chinese penchance for screwing you out of a buck rather than earning it honestly that is going to bite them in the ass. The Chinese can build a good car. One of them. Then they will twiddle and pare and chisel and fuck their suppliers and build backyard factories favored by local politicians instead of qualified ones, and they will engage in foot shots until no one trusts anything that comes out of that country, and they will learn that honest value as delivered is worth more than the initial swag.

      Take the Bluesky (PRC brand) toaster oven my GF bought. It came apart in three -months'- usage. We bought a deLonghi toaster oven the next time. Haier washing machines? Look at their ratings. Jinma tractors? Ditto. On and on.... The products are not badly designed, they are badly built out of materials that wouldn't pass a first article inspection, and will be until Chinese business doesn't depend on bribery at every conceivable level to function.

      Until that day arrives, buy no Chinese product you have to trust.

  4. Re:Western and Eastern educations are not equivale by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hmm - I work with the top echelon geneticists and biometric engineers. The poster was right - India and China have a ways to go with their educational system to enforce innovation is the concentration. Currently it is not. This is evident as you say in the papers published. A majority are NOT from China or India except where they feed like leeches off of true innovations using a play on words. lol