VIA's R & D department began operating a year ago, and its original target for the first phase (the first two years) was to recruit 200 R & D people and create a strong foundation. The long-term hope is to have an R & D staff of 2000 working here, which would be on a par with the Beijing research institute founded by Intel.
威盛的北京研發部門一年前開始運作，初期（兩年內）的目標是招募二百五十位研發人才，做扎根的基礎訓練，未來希望能在中國建立一個二千人的研發團隊，和英特爾的北京研究院一拚長短。