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New TI center focused on mobile multimedia

Texas Instruments Inc., the No.3 semiconductor maker in the United States, opened a research center in Samsung-dong, southern Seoul yesterday. It is the 12th foreign information technology research center to have been set up in Korea. The TI Wireless Technology Center will be mainly devoted to developing mobile multimedia platforms, which the Ministry of Information and Communication has identified as a new growth engine for Korea. The ministry was instrumental in attracting the research investment. In partnership with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, the center will also launch a project to develop next-generation mobile multimedia platforms that can receive various forms of broadcasting through mobile phones. The U.S. firm plans to dispatch 30 researchers ― or 40 percent of the entire research staff at the new center ― to the project and will also bring researchers from its U.S. headquarters on board. The Information Ministry plans to offer 23.5 billion won ($24 million) for the project by 2010, a sum Texas Instruments will match. Currently, 11 other global companies, including Intel, HP, IBM and Microsoft, operate research centers in collaboration with the Information Ministry. by Seo Ji-eun
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