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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by yorwba on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @08:16AM (#24131253)
Microsoft has R&D centers in China where they employ graduates of China's top universities to work on cutting-edge research. https://www.msra.cn/

Kicking Huawei out because they fund research in Western countries would be just as stupid as China kicking out Microsoft because they fund research in China.

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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by actuator on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @08:39AM (#24131428)
Pardon my ignorance, but has MSR China produced something good? I have seen a lot of interesting stuff come out of MSR but mostly it has been from the US.

Also, are top talent joining MSR China? From what I know, many Chinese companies beat MS in compensation easily and these new companies will have the lure of quick growth as well.

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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by yorwba on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @09:19AM (#24131764)
ResNet https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03385 came out of Microsoft Research Asia. I think that's a pretty good thing they produced.

Evidently they managed to hire the top talent behind that work at some point. Looks like Kaiming He works at Facebook now, though. http://kaiminghe.com/

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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by actuator on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @09:22AM (#24131793)
Ah, interesting to know that. Thanks.
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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by beaunative on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @05:12PM (#24137049)
Research institutions generally have lower salary then industry. That doesn't mean it's not a good place to go.
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