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BEIJING, Aug 2 (Ti Post) —— Intel's Greater Bay Area Technology Innovation Center has opened in Shenzhen's Nanshan District, with the first batch of six companies to move in.

The six enterprises are Senarytech, Chipsea, Shenzhen Envicool Technology, Ramaxel Technology, Suzhou Leisen Electronics, and Shenzhen UGreen, according to an announcement made by the US chip giant on Saturday.  

Wang Rui, the Senior Vice President of Intel Corporation and Chairman of Intel China, said that Shenzhen is a region where China's innovators are concentrated. Intel Greater Bay Area Technology Innovation Center will focus on artificial intelligence, chip application development, edge computing, digital development, and other areas. It will bring together ecological resources and partners from the upstream and the downstream of the industry chain, to jointly promote the application innovation, as well as the construction of a future-oriented innovation ecology and a new type of industrial cluster in the Greater Bay Area.

Wang stated that the core of Intel China's strategy is serving China and promoting common development by being rooted in China.

Zhou Bing, Vice President of China Corporate Affairs at Intel China, told TMTPost that the Greater Bay Area Science and Technology Innovation Center is focused on providing partners with applications and solutions, and other aspects. Moreover, the platform will also apply Intel's technology to incubate and support local companies. "The technology innovation center in Shenzhen is one of the science and innovation centers where Intel can be the closest to the Chinese market and Chinese customers," said Zhou.

The Intel Greater Bay Area Science and Technology Innovation Center is jointly built by Intel and the Shenzhen Nanshan District Government with a 7,200-square-meter intelligent space, which focuses on the five major areas of application innovation and transformation, accelerated incubation, results demonstration, technical support, and talent training.

At the same time, Intel will also set up joint labs through offering offices to promote the landing and industrialization of application innovations in the fields of the IC (integrated circuits) industry, green and low carbon, intelligent transportation, and so on.

At present, Intel China's R & D and innovation ecological layout mainly includes Intel's Beijing Research Institute, Asia-Pacific R & D Center in Shanghai, FPGA (Field Programmable Logic Gate Array) China Innovation Center in Chongqing, as well as Shenzhen's Intel Science and Technology Innovation Center of the Greater Bay Area. Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Center is established to promote the application of innovation and the landing of the ecological industry in the Greater Bay Area.

Meanwhile, Intel Greater Bay Area Science and Technology Innovation Center also set up a Technology Innovation Growth Acceleration Program for the innovation industry ecology. Intel technology and ecological resources are introduced to provide support for marketing, replacement, industry docking, project cooperation, and other forms of ecological service systems. Relevant enterprises will receive technical counseling and support based on Intel’s products and solutions, seek solutions jointly with Intel, and enter Intel's solutions market.