Google has recently reached an agreement with HTC, the amount of 1.1 billion US dollars to draw originally involved in the creation of Google Pixel mobile phone HTC members to join, and HTC will also handset-related intellectual property rights to Google for non-exclusive use, the transaction was finalized on the 30th finalized .Through the original HTC Powered by HTC nearly 2,000 R & D personnel to join, Taiwan has also become Google's largest research and development base in the Asia Pacific region.This transaction is completed, Google hardware Rick Osterloh, senior vice president of the official website said in a text , Google welcomed the new blood to join the Google hardware department. In the past, HTC had considerable innovations in smart phone product development such as the launch of the first 3G smart phone in 2005, the first touch-enabled cell phone to go on sale in 2007, and the first all-metal In addition, the team also worked closely with Google in recent years, Pixel and Pixel 2 mobile phone investment, through this team to join, in addition to being expected to inject more than 10 years of Google's smart phone development experience, but also to Google Future product innovation gets more boost. Osterloh notes that Google is developing hardware Has entered the third year, follow-up Google will continue to invest in hardware development and building core competitiveness, Google also hopes to use this cooperation case, further research and development from HTC energy and Google's artificial intelligence (AI) technology and Hard and soft integration, to create more user-friendly and improve the life experience of the product. Another Osterloh stressed that Taiwan is Google's very important innovation and engineering research and development hub, with the HTC cooperation case, Taipei has also become Google in the Asia Pacific region The largest research and development base, in addition to this cooperation case, the follow-up to Google will also continue to expand the layout of the Asia Pacific market believes that the corresponding 5G into commercial operation in 2020, supplemented by virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) Artificial intelligence and other technologies become more mature, then mobile phones, smart audio as the core of the new terminal application ecosystem such as smart home, 360 cameras, VR display terminals, Internet of Things and other applications will blossom, so this Google and HTC cooperation Case after the verdict, the follow-up in addition to the development of mobile phones, the consideration of high-tech industries in Taiwan such as the clustering of supply chain characteristics, follow-up Taiwan R & D team estimated in other Go The importance of Google's hardware development will also grow.
