Following the launch of its product development center in Taipei City on Saturday, Motorola Electronics Taiwan yesterday said that it hopes to see the production value of its mobile phone peripheral products reach NT$42.3 billion annually.
"The company aspires to see the development center's annual production value reach NT$80 billion over three years, and see it climb to NT$42.3 billion each year," Cabinet Spokesman Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) said. His comments came after Premier Yu Shyi-kun received Motorola Taiwan's president Tom Sun (孫大明) and executive vice president and president of Global Relations & Resources Organization of Motorola Inc Eugene Delaney at the Cabinet complex yesterday morning.
High on the development center's agenda is to design the first 32-bit CPU in Asia.
With annual net sales of over US$30 billion, Motorola Inc tapped into Taiwan's market in 1967 and launched its local mobile phone department in 1990.
The just-launched product development center will team up with over 20 local manufacturers to design and manufacture the next generation of mobile phones, semiconductor chips and high-performance batteries.
Delaney also presented the newest cellphone model, the A760, to Yu as a token of gratitude for the Cabinet's assistance in making the establishment of its development center possible.
The model was released in the local market two weeks ago. It features a color touch screen that supports up to 65,000 colors, and combines a personal computer (PC), personal digital assistant (PDA), camera, MP3 player and speakerphone with messaging, Internet access and Bluetooth wireless technology.
Yu said that he hoped the partnership between Taiwan and Motorola will encourage more multinational companies to set up their research and development centers here.
The nation has seen 64 domestic and 15 international companies set up their R&D centers here since the Cabinet kicked off a six-year investment project in May last year.
The Cabinet hopes to see at least 30 multinational companies set up their research and development centers here by 2008.
In addition to Motorola, Ericsson, Sony and Alcatel have also announced they would set up R&D centers in Taiwan.
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