EETimes Asia seems to have picked a slightly misleading headline for its story.  Careful reading of the text suggests that the operation in Hangzhou will be more of a design support center.  Intersil’s VP of Asia Pacific Sales reports that,

“The Hangzhou applications team will provide key support for Intersil’s business around the world, and help us to better serve our Chinese customers in ‘real time.’”

It appears that the team will be charged with providing application support to Intersil’s Chinese customers, rather than actually contributing to Intersil’s product engineering.  In any event, this is a good indication of how important China based clients are becoming to western technology companies.  It will be interesting to see whether the company decides to leverage this center to actually start performing development work at some point in the future.

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