Google to stick it to Apple in smartphone wars after closing HTC deal
Secondly, it gives Google a vast new engineering base in Taipei, Taiwan, where HTC is located.
A crucial element of the acquisition is the power it will give Google to design its own consumer hardware as well as high-end, special objective chips.
The acquisition should help Google streamline the process of making its Pixel phones in the future since it would have to rely on just company - and its engineering staff - to make its Pixel phones. Apple last week revealed launch dates for its new HomePod speaker system while Google Home, the search giant's platform for home automation, was very much the star of the show this year at CES.
The heavy investment in HTC by Google previous year was unexpected, but a definite boon for the struggling Taiwanese manufacturer.
Meanwhile, HTC announced that Google has obtained a non-exclusive license for HTC's intellectual property, and has confirmed that it will continue to make its own smartphones, reports tech crunch. HTC is retaining its Vive VR division and it will continue to make its own smartphones, the company confirmed a year ago. Taiwan is a key innovation and engineering hub for Google, and Taipei will now become the largest Google engineering site in APAC.
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Most obviously, the deal boosts Google's hardware game significantly by handing a portion of HTC's own smartphone development team, many of whom worked on Google's Pixel hardware (which was outsourced to HTC) and other HTC devices which, while much lauded, didn't sell in huge volumes. The experienced team of HTC engineers, which brought us the first touch-centric phone and the first metal-clad unibody smartphone, may prove to be exactly what Google needs to further improve its R&D abilities.
The team has one mission: "to create radically helpful experiences for people around the world, by combining the best of Google's AI, software and hardware".
Finally, with the official close of this deal, we're expanding our footprint in the Asia Pacific region.
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