Japanese R&D Expands into Vietnam

by Jonathan Erickson

Matsushita Electric has opened another -- its third -- R&D center in southeast Asia, this on ein Vietnam. The research center will focus on embedded software development, primarily software for digital consumer electronics and home electric appliances, and will collaborate with Hanoi University of Technology to train embedded software engineers.

The new company, which opened this week in Hanoi and will operate under the name of Panasonic R&D Center Vietnam Co. Ltd., will initally have 19 employees, but plans call 50 engineers by 2009 and eventually as many as 200 engineers.

At the same time, the university announced it will launch a new course on embedded software technology that will turn out aobut 30 engineers per year. Matsushita said it will provide text books and class materials and send company engineers to lecture at the university.

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