IBM Expands R&D In China

[OhioChick]

Source: Information Week

The new facility will focus primarily on information analytics, Web-delivered service computing, cloud computing, and stream computing.

October 14, 2008 02:00 PM

IBM (NYSE: IBM) on Tuesday announced the opening of a new R&D lab in Shanghai, China, to redouble its efforts on Web-based services, including cloud computing.

The facility is an extension of the IBM China Research Laboratory in Beijing, one of IBM's eight research labs worldwide.

"Our extension in Shanghai adds to the significant research and development presence in China and increases China's position as an innovation hub for IBM," Dr. Thomas Li, director of IBM's China Research Laboratory, said in a statement.

In addition to cloud computing, the Shanghai campus will focus on information analytics, Web-delivered service computing, and stream computing.

Cloud computing is emerging as a buzz phrase these days but does represent a significant shift in computer cycle resource pooling and server consolidation as organizations are facing extreme data overload and skyrocketing energy costs.




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What's wrong with a new R&D facility in the U.S.? Oh.....Nevermind.

[lib2DaBone]

1. the bleeding continues... and CONgress is on vacation..as usual

[ChromeFoundry]

2. haven't all the main arteries been tapped yet? n/t

[Owl]

3. FU IBM

[boomerbust]

4. IBM

Should be taxed into oblivion.

[OhioChick]

9. You got it! n/t

[antimatter98]

5. Not out of character for IBM for decades...but..

IBM has had research labs situated globally for decades, and these have been tied to
product development labs very closely since the mid 80's.

But, I'm not up on what IBM has done with US research labs--whether they have been
expanded or closed since 1990, so I can't comment on whether the company has
'de-committed' from the US for R&D. They certainly have in manufacturing (the
Endicott NY lab and plant have been sold off years ago, for example, and of course
the laptop business sold to China recently).

I'm not defending IBM at all. I think an Obama White House should look at all
corporate outsourcing to see where we're at in 2009, and make plans to deal with this.

Last, I will point out that a friend of mine who runs a university math program in
financial mathematics was told to make plans to recruit Chinese candidates because
US candidates were substandard. This might give a hint why IBM may not be
interested in the US as a 'seat of creativity' in the future.

My impression, having
taught at the university level is that US students are not academically inclined
compared to Asian students, and lack the drive to do well in higher level studies.
Sorry to say. Its chicken and the egg--- why expect more of students if there are
no jobs to employ the achievers, so you recruit overseas students who will do well
and return to their home country to excel and be employed appropriately. Why get
a PhD in the US if you end up as a Walmart clerk. (many students I've had who were
born in the US go to China with their advanced degrees where they are paid for their
work appropriately and don't have to flip burgers...)

Just saying.

[blue97keet]

7. Look what creativity in "financial mathematics" has done for our

mortgage risk etc. management lately. Recruit Chinese candidates and maybe it can do the same for China.:sarcasm:

[OhioChick]

10. I don't buy the "underachiever" argument.

Study: There Is No Shortage of U.S. Engineers

"Dukes 2005 study corrected a long-heard myth about India and China graduating 12 times as many engineers as the United States, finding instead that the United States graduates a comparable number."

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/Study-There-Is-No-Shortage-of-US-Engineers/

:hi:

[Azlady]

12. Ditto... I don't buy the underachiever argument either.. thanks n/t

[girl gone mad]

17. My degrees are in hard science.

I saw no significant difference between my Chinese peers and my American peers in study habits, social habits, motivational drive or overall grades. I never had difficulty competing with Chinese students and often tutored them in Chemistry and Physics.

All of my Iranian classmates, on the other hand, consistently ranked in the top 1%. In my senior and graduate classes, they regularly obliterated the curve. I could speculate as to why the Iranian students were so much better than the rest of us, but clearly this exercise is merely anecdotal, as is the basis for your claim that Chinese students outperform American students.

[formercia]

18. The selection process for students contemplating foreign study

is more rigorous in some countries. I had a former student from Ethiopia who was doing poorly in the chem class he was taking. He came to talk with me because I had taught the chem lab that he was a student in the previous semester. He was concerned that, if he failed, he would be severely punished on returning home. He was in tears.

[boomerbust]

6. The Conservative Arguement

We must guard against socialism but still allow our capitalist companies to do business in communist countries. These pigs should be taxed right into oblivion.

[UndertheOcean]

8. Well , they will then leave the US altogether ...

[w4rma]

11. Then they'll go out of businesss. (nt)

[UndertheOcean]

14. Not if their market is Global.

[OhioChick]

15. I agree........let them go out of business! n/t

[populistdriven]

20. Stop buying their hardware for the Military and stop buying their PS3 CPU's!

[Azlady]

13. K&R

[ihavenobias]

16. You're just one rec shy

:)

[populistdriven]

19. Why does IBM hate America?