Sunday, August 06, 2017

Helping China Grow !

NY Times today:

How China grew. They've had a little help

The Price of Access to China's Big Market

Beijing is pressing American technology giants to form joint ventures or partnerships with Chinese companies and transfer advanced technology. The enterprises, in which American companies usually take a minority stake, are backed by the government.

Company, Partner, Date, Product, Investment

AMD
Tianjin Haiguang Advanced Technology Investment Company
2016 Server chips $293 million

Qualcomm
Guizhou government
2016 High-end server chips $280 million

Brocade
Guizhou government
2016 Data center networking solutions unknown

VMWare
Sugon Information
2016 Cloud computing and virtualization software
$50 million

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Tsinghua Holdings Unisplendour Group
2016 Networking servers and storage systems
$4.5 billion

Microsoft
C.E.T.C. Group
2015 Software $40 million

Western Digital
Tsinghua Holdings Unisplendour Group
2016 Data center storage systems
$300 million

Cisco Systems
Inspur Group
2016 Networking systems $100 million

Intel Spreadtrum/ RDA Microelectronics
2014 Mobile phone chips
$1.5 billion

The investment figure is either the initial investment in the venture or the U.S. company's investment in it. | By THE NEW YORK TIMES