A Sino-US micro-electronic joint research center opened in Chengdu,
capital of southwest China's
Sichuan Province, Tuesday.
The research center was established by the University of
Electronic Science and Technology of China and the US-based ON
Semiconductor Corporation.
The center aims to attract talented Chinese students to develop
power management devices and integrated circuits, according to
Henry Leung, chief executive officer of ON in the Asia-Pacific
region.
ON
will fund the training of UEST's teachers by the Georgia Institute
of Technology, in the United States, in the study of electronics
and integrated circuits.
ON
is the first foreign company in the province to have a cooperation
program with universities, said Leung.
It
has also cooperated with Zhejiang University, a
leading institute in scientific engineering in east China.
In
addition, the company also invested in Leshan Phoenix Semiconductor
Co., Ltd., in Sichuan's Leshan City, in 1995, and was the first
multinational to begin production of six-inch chips in western
China.
Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, ON Semiconductor is a leading
global supplier of advanced semiconductors for power and data
management applications. It is listed on the New York
technology-focused NASDAQ composite index.
(Xinhua News Agency February 27, 2003)