China's emergence as a 'next Silicon Valley' had many flavors at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week. There, companies like Huawei, Haier, Lenovo and scores of other home-grown Chinese brands touted new mobile phones, tablet PCs, smart TVs and other gadgets for the growing global consumer electronics sector.
The China tech story is not just about the mass manufacturing and mass marketing of consumer electronics devices. In China today, design engineers are rapidly gravitating toward the fabless semiconductor model.
It's a big business and technology shift for Chinese electronics makers, but it will, inexorably, help position China's native suppliers, which are legion, to create much higher value products for both the home and export markets. Japan and Korea will feel this soon and are well aware that they will be facing a much more competitive China in the extremely price sentive global consumer electronics marketpalce in the years ahead.
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