A large portion of Ph.D.s in engineering and science graduating in the U.S. are born in China (and India). They work for the exact same companies after the graduation in the U.S. The only differences are the working location and hassle of dealing with visas and immigration. The best and smartest are among these students. To be frank, many of them do not need a Ph.D. degree or the training in American universities to be good engineers. Many of them just use the graduate training as channel to get to the U.S. It is just convenient for the companies to open the R&D centers in China and lure the best and smartest with the companies' reputation as technology leaders and high (in local terms) pay before they spend the probably unnecessary years in American graduate school, and thus they surely will demand even higher salary.The Chinese market is surging for electricity, cars and much more, and companies are concluding that their researchers need to be close to factories and consumers alike. Applied Materials set up its latest solar research labs here after estimating that China would be producing two-thirds of the world’s solar panels by the end of this year.
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With China’s economy gaining strength, Mr. Pinto and his wife, then living in Santa Clara, began insisting in 2005 that their sons study Chinese once a week.
Now 10 and 11, the boys are improving their Chinese and mastering the art of eating with chopsticks.
Microsoft and Google started this long ago. Bill Gates said before the congress during a hearing about H1B visa that these students will work for the big name companies [after graduation], just a matter of where and which companies. And now, many of them may even skip the American graduate school step.
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