XI’AN, China — For years, many of China’s
best and brightest left for the United States, where high-tech industry
was more cutting-edge. But Mark R. Pinto is moving in the opposite
direction.
Mr. Pinto is the first chief technology officer of a major American tech
company to move to China. The company, Applied
Materials, is one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent firms. It
supplied equipment used to perfect the first computer chips. Today, it
is the world’s biggest supplier of the equipment used to make
semiconductors, solar panels and flat-panel displays.
In addition to moving Mr. Pinto and his family to Beijing in January, Applied Materials, whose headquarters are in Santa Clara, Calif., has just built its newest and largest research labs here. Last week, it even held its annual shareholders’ meeting in Xi’an.
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Author: KEITH BRADSHER
