Xilinx opens R&D center in Beijing

EE Times staff -- EDN, December 13, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO-Programmable logic vendor Xilinx Inc has opened an R&D center in Beijing and consolidated it along with local sales, marketing, and application engineering operations into a single site, the company said Tuesday (December 12).

Xilinx (San Jose, Calif) said its 20,000-square-foot site in Beijing would support local, regional, and multi-national customers. The R&D team in Beijing is focused on software-related design activities as part of the company's Programmable Platforms Development group, a global organization responsible for development and delivery of Xilinx flagship programmable platforms, Xilinx said.

Vincent Tong, Xilinx senior vice president and leader of the company's Asia Pacific operations, said through a statement that China is working hard to become a global R&D hub as part of the country's current five-year plan. "We at Xilinx are similarly committed to our goal of being the primary innovation platform for Chinese electronics system designers," Tong said.  

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