Some of China's supercomputers have been used to design wings for China's stealth fighter, now in test phase, and to design parts for China's first commercial jet.

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His firm takes design specifications for shoes from its customers and then manages product development and quality control in factories in China (and now in India and Vietnam, too).

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At the Semicon show people told me that the semiconductor equipment shows in Asia ( China and Japan) are now much bigger than in the US. This reflects the movement of manufacturing and design from the US to other countries.

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