Hi Denni, "By Our Intellectual Property Correspondent: "
theinquirer.net
Wednesday 25 June 2003, 12:08
"OUR OLD PALS at the People's Daily report today that the Lenovo Group, also known as Legend, have developed a notebook motherboard and software which owe their origin to homegrown intellectual property rights.
According to the site, the notebook will use Intel's Pentium M microprocessor, an i885 chipset and Intel Pro Wireless wireless LAN support.
Legend Lenovo apparently has contributed a design for the mobo which is completely independent from anyone else's design and software which has been designed from the bottom up, without using anyone else's intellectual property.
The report claims that Legend-Lenovo will now apply for patents, perhaps as many as 20, on the technology."
theinquirer.net
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The projects that have gone overseas seem to be the older CPU duplicate projects. The new technology groups in the USA seem to be absorbing around 65% to 70% (my guess) of those who were in redeployment from the older duplicate projects. Most layoffs appear to be in IT.
Regarding new technology, most is done in the USA. It took one foreign country about 30 years before they were able to successfully develop new Intel technology.
Given my statistics above, I don't believe the engineering positions are the target (given it appears the top 65% to 70% can move to new technology groups right here in the USA).
It's the IT positions that appear to be the target for overseas it seems to me, across the board at all companies. And some of the mature/old/duplicate projects in old technologies.
If you look at the auto industry, the main design centers continue to be the USA, last I checked.
My concern from a competitive standpoint for this country is: what happens to the USA when some of the research centers move offshore (e.g. MS-Beijing research center). I'm making an important distinction between design centers and research centers. So, I'm not talking Intel's stuff, I'm talking Microsoft's stuff. (Intel just has chipsets in China & one project of an older CPU in India - development center, not pure research center.)
Am curious about the impact to Microsoft in having a pure research center in China - if there's a belief that open source is the way to go, then there's no problem, but is that the assumption and if so why? I've noticed no industry figure has discussed the ramifications of a Microsoft research center moving to China. Why?
Regards,
Amy J |
