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04-12-04, 14:23
RABAT, Dec.02– A group of leading US high-tech enterprises and dozens of others from the Silicon Valley are exploring prospects of partnership with Moroccan researchers .
Texas Instruments, Agilent Technologies, Qualcomm, et Greenberg Traurig and dozens of other high-tech firms are attending this Thursday a meeting held by Morocco’s BMCE, the prestigious Mohammedia engineers school (EMI ) and Al-Akhawayn university , the only English-speaking pay university in Morocco.
The meeting seeks to establish contacts between enterprises of the famous Silicon Valley, California, with Moroccan experts, says EMI director-general Ramdane Khalid.
Organizers also say the meeting, part of the Morocco-US free trade agreement concluded last June, means to give leaders of these multinational companies, themselves researchers, an opportunity to find out about Moroccan technology experts.
This is no delocalisation but an opportunity for invention and development of new products, he said stressing that Moroccan engineers who are famous for their solid education and competitive costs attract big multinational firms.
He also hoped that these firms will open research laboratories in Morocco in order to contribute to the Kingdom’s development and reduce brain drain .
American company "Atrenta" will concede to EMI and to Al Akhawayn university a very important and costly package software used to design electronic chips. The software, currently used by four American universities (MIT, Stanford, Caltech et Princeton) will be conceded for a ten-year period.
This will not only help give high level training to engineers but also acquire state-of-the-art technology, rejoices EMI director.
EMI is already hosting a "ST Microelectronics" IC design and software development center which has hired 150 engineers and is planning to open a research lab that will recruit 600 engineers in three years.
"ST Microelectronics" will market mobile phones, cameras and TV sets working with Morocco-made chips.
The enterprises from Silicon Valley are "General Photonics", "OEwaves, Inc", "Nanonexus", "Rfmagic", "Asip", "Atrenta", "GCS", "Neopad", "Nevis, Networks Inc" and "Sequoia ".
© MAP 2004
Texas Instruments, Agilent Technologies, Qualcomm, et Greenberg Traurig and dozens of other high-tech firms are attending this Thursday a meeting held by Morocco’s BMCE, the prestigious Mohammedia engineers school (EMI ) and Al-Akhawayn university , the only English-speaking pay university in Morocco.
The meeting seeks to establish contacts between enterprises of the famous Silicon Valley, California, with Moroccan experts, says EMI director-general Ramdane Khalid.
Organizers also say the meeting, part of the Morocco-US free trade agreement concluded last June, means to give leaders of these multinational companies, themselves researchers, an opportunity to find out about Moroccan technology experts.
This is no delocalisation but an opportunity for invention and development of new products, he said stressing that Moroccan engineers who are famous for their solid education and competitive costs attract big multinational firms.
He also hoped that these firms will open research laboratories in Morocco in order to contribute to the Kingdom’s development and reduce brain drain .
American company "Atrenta" will concede to EMI and to Al Akhawayn university a very important and costly package software used to design electronic chips. The software, currently used by four American universities (MIT, Stanford, Caltech et Princeton) will be conceded for a ten-year period.
This will not only help give high level training to engineers but also acquire state-of-the-art technology, rejoices EMI director.
EMI is already hosting a "ST Microelectronics" IC design and software development center which has hired 150 engineers and is planning to open a research lab that will recruit 600 engineers in three years.
"ST Microelectronics" will market mobile phones, cameras and TV sets working with Morocco-made chips.
The enterprises from Silicon Valley are "General Photonics", "OEwaves, Inc", "Nanonexus", "Rfmagic", "Asip", "Atrenta", "GCS", "Neopad", "Nevis, Networks Inc" and "Sequoia ".
© MAP 2004