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Israeli chip firm buys Chinese know-how

Conventional thinking holds that Chinese intellectual property has little value to western technology firms. Think again. Israeli chip company Saifun Semiconductors has agreed to purchase IP and know-how from SMIC, the largest chip manufacturer in... ...full story at Engaging China

from Engaging China on Wed, Jul 04 2007

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