Founded in 1986, GIGABYTE started as a small research and development team and has since taken a position as one of the in the world's top motherboard manufacturers.

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Being a pioneer in this industry, we realize the need to adapt to the demands of new markets and explore new technologies using our Research and Development team.

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Someone should seriously tell IBM's research and development team to take a much-deserved vacation, as these folks have been cranking out the goods at an alarming rate of late.

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And in order to avoid the risk of losing those talented people, WhiteHat promotes them to team leaders, research and development people, quality assurance, and sales jobs.

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Game Developers Conference 2013 organizers have announced the recent addition of two talks from Valve that discuss porting Team Fortress 2 to VR goggles - plus research and development challenges for head-mounted displays and tracking systems.

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There has to be accountability over which team has undertaken what element of work in the research and development process, and in doing so there has to be an apportionment of the overall savings.

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Mr da Silva's team favour an industrial policy, with tax breaks, cheaper credit and government investment in research and development and in infrastructure.

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