Intel founds Chinese R&D company | Channel Register

Intel founds Chinese R&D company | Channel Register: "Intel has set up a software and hardware focused research and development subsidiary in China, the chip giant said today.
The operation, formally named Asia-Pacific R&D Ltd., will concentrate on products that span Intel's platform-centric business units and target markets around the globe as well as a China itself.
Located in Shanghai's Zizhu Science Park, the company will take on 1,000 staff by the end of 2006, the chip giant said, many taken from what it described as 'the growing pool of technical talent in China' and its growing cadre of 'highly trained researchers and technologists'.
That might sound like Intel is trying to butter up the locals, but it cuts both ways. The company was last year instrumental in persuading China to ditch plans to impose its own wireless networking security standard, WAPI (Wireless LAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure), on the country's IT industry. Intel threatened to stop selling Centrino chips to Chinese PC companies, and the government back-tracked."