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Team on 08 August 2006
Flash specialist sets up in China
Global engineering network expands with new integrated circuit design centre located in Suzhou, China.
Spansion has expanded its global engineering network with a new integrated circuit (IC) design centre located in Suzhou, China Strategically located near many high-profile consumer electronics companies and within Spansion's existing Suzhou manufacturing facility, the centre will enable Spansion to leverage regional design expertise and rapidly respond to the rising demand for Spansion MirrorBit and Logic-on-Flash solutions in Asia
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Suzhou centre becomes part of Spansion's growing network of design centres and specialised centres of excellence, which now includes sites in eight locations around the globe.
"Establishing the Suzhou centre will position Spansion to more effectively serve the rapidly expanding consumer electronics market in Asia", said Bertrand Cambou, President and Chief Executive Officer of Spansion.
"By working closely with the region's complementary hardware and software suppliers, as well as end customers, we will have the opportunity to develop sophisticated system-level solutions that reduce cost, time to market and design complexity".
"We believe this will unleash greater innovation and differentiation in end products, while increasing the value that Spansion brings to the market".
The centre will initially house a team of 10 engineers dedicated to developing system-on-chip (SoC) solutions that integrate Spansion MirrorBit Flash memory with logic.
Spansion plans to grow the facility to 50 engineers within three years, and expand system and software engineering resources.
The centre is expected to be fully operational by mid 2007.
Pern Shaw, a 30-year industry veteran with extensive IC and design management expertise, will head up the new site.
As Director of Engineering for Motorola, Shaw successfully created and operated a similar design centre in the Suzhou area.
Most recently, he was Chief Technology Officer for China Core Technologies.
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