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The World’s Largest Digital TV Trade Magazine
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coMpAnY REpoRT chipset Software Developer<br />
ëShenzhen<br />
Thousands of<br />
Developmental Engineers<br />
Alexander Wiese<br />
One of the most critical departments in<br />
any technology company would be their<br />
Research and Development (R&D) group.<br />
Less innovative firms have just a few of<br />
these R&D <strong>eng</strong>ineers while those more<br />
strongly innovative companies have a<br />
large R&D department. But what if nearly<br />
an entire company were made up of R&D<br />
<strong>eng</strong>ineers? And what if there were thousands<br />
of them?<br />
This is precisely the case with Hisilicon.<br />
Almost 4000 employees work there and<br />
90% of them are in R&D. The few remaining<br />
employees are in sales, marketing and<br />
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administration. Sure enough, Hisilicon is a<br />
spin-off of the gigantic company Huawei.<br />
This enormous worldwide telecommunications<br />
giant was founded in 1991 and<br />
today has more than 100,000 employees.<br />
In 2004 the R&D department was spunoff<br />
under the name Hisilicon. Hisilicon’s
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