Huawei to Invest EUR 70 Mln in Finnish R&D Center
Huawei, 12/10/12
Chinese telecom equipment and terminal manufacturer Huawei today announced that it will invest EUR 70 mln over a five-year period to establish a research and development (R&D) center in Helsinki, Finland. Through the investment Huawei will look to strengthen the company's R&D capabilities, augmenting the over 70,000 employees currently engaged in R&D worldwide.
The Finnish R&D center will be a key driver in Huawei's research and development of new technologies for mobile devices. Initial projects will focus on software development for smartphones, tablets and rich-media devices, optimizing the user experience of existing operating systems such as Android and Windows Phone 8. From the outset, Huawei plans to recruit 30 employees for the center, with the goal of hiring more than 100 employees over five years.
The R&D center in Helsinki will serve as one of Huawei's core centers for device R&D, joining an already established modem and technology design center in Sweden and a user interface research center in the United Kingdom.
Huawei plans to double its European staff to over 14,000 within the next three to five years.
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