Chinese telecom device maker Huawei opened a new research and development organization in Southern France.
Located at Sophia Antipolis, this new R&D unit currently has 20
engineers and it will add ten more engineers by the end of 2014. Most of
those engineers previous worked for Texas Instruments.
Huawei revealed that the company started operating in France from 2003
and the company announced in 2013 that they planned to recruit 170
researchers in the country by 2017. Huawei also said that they will
invest GBP125 million, which is about USD203.3 million to build a new
R&D center in Bristol, Britain. Huawei currently has a R&D unit
in Britain's Ipswich. By 2017, Huawei plans to hire 300 employees for
those two R&D units in Britain, so as to realize its goal of
creating 5,500 jobs in Europe.
In addition, Huawei launched a new innovation center in Walldorf,
Germany, in August 2014, which focusing on development of integrated
products.
