S Korea to get Intel R&D center

[dArKeR]

KOREAN CLUSTER: The company is hoping to capitalize on South Korea's highly wired market, while Seoul wants to attract as many high-tech research labs as it can

AFP , SEOUL
Tuesday, Mar 09, 2004,Page 12

US high-tech giant Intel Corp said yesterday it had agreed to open a research center in South Korea, the world's leading high-speed broadband market.

The agreement was reached at a meeting here between Patrick Gelsinger, Intel's senior vice president and chief technology officer, and Yim Chu-jwan, president of the state-run Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, a joint statement said.

It highlights a new push by global high-tech giants into South Korea, which has the world's highest broadband penetration rate at 73 percent and the world's fastest mobile phone network.

IBM Corp, the world's largest computer company, agreed last year to open a research and development center in South Korea to develop software for mobile communications.

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The Patriotic Repukelican Rats are abandoning America.

[FloridaPat]

1. As much as I hate to say it, the only way the hi tech sector

can stay in the US is if Pakistan sends India a nuclear bomb and N. Korea sends S. Korea a nuclear bomb. Maybe this is Bush's plan - allow Pakistan to sell nuclear material to everyone while we invade countries that are not threat. Then things get so bad, everyone nukes everyone else and the US has all the jobs back!