HP Labs goes to China
Hewlett-Packard is preparing to open a research laboratory in China later this year with a focus on computer security and services among other projects, according to an HP Labs executive.
The plant is expected to compliment six other HP Lab sites, including Palo Alto, Calif.; Cambridge, Mass.; Bristol, England; Haifa, Israel; Tokyo, Japan; and Bangalore, India.
“This plant along with the one in Bangalore will help us serve our next billion customers,” HP Labs Associate Director Howard Taub revealed Wednesday during a meeting with CNET News.com reporters at HP’s Palo Alto facility.
I’m glad to see HP Labs finally heading back to China. This will be sort of the second time around. The original HP Labs operation which started in Beijing in the 90’s basically ended up with Agilent after the spin off from HP, and around the same time Microsoft Research and others set up shop and glommed onto a lot of people. That, plus lots of organizational flux, seems to have ended up costing 6 years on the ground for getting plugged into the local research scene.
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