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Facing the change of traditional PC to mobile Internet, the talent resource of Taiwan IT industry also faces a transition from "hard" to "soft".　　Not only is the scramble for heat in the island, but a large number of Taiwanese hardware makers are also eyeing the mainland – where a large number of software development engineers, especially the legitimate Android platform, are more plentiful than Taiwan.　　This is a far cry from the time when Taiwan used to treat the mainland as a foundry base and a sales market. "With the development of the Shanzhai industry in the mainland in recent years, mainland researchers have actually been ahead of Taiwanese companies in the development of the Android platform," he said.　　"Taiwanese hardware makers have poured too much effort into the Wintel architecture (the Windows system and Intel architecture), and there is a serious shortage of resources invested in the arm and Android architectures, although Taiwan has HTC, but it is rare," the head of a Shenzhen tablet maker told reporters.　　The reality of Taiwan's hardware manufacturers is that, faced with the trend of the mobile internet era, the arm plus Android architecture is undoubtedly more advantageous-faster computing speed and lower power consumption, but this requires strong hardware and software integration capabilities.　　This is precisely the weakness of Taiwan's traditional hardware manufacturers.　　From "hard" to "soft" transition middle-level soft and hard integration is the weakness of Taiwan's hardware manufacturers in the first half of this year, Taiwan's IT manufacturing enterprises collectively "overweight" software research and development. Compal General Manager Compal in the first quarter of this year, said the software will be the company's key development projects this year: "The scale from the current 100 people, expanded to 600 people."　　Acer and HTC have also said they will recruit more than 1000 software engineers by the end of the year. "Taiwan's IT industry in the past advantages of hardware generation, software research and development strength slightly weak."　　"Semiconductor industry analyst Yanhui that in the face of the trend towards the mobile internet, Taiwan IT companies need to strengthen the software research and development areas of investment, especially based on the Android platform application development." In the past PC era, software design was relatively mature based on Microsoft and Intel architecture.　　In the functional mobile phone products, MediaTek's turn key mode, so that downstream integrators in the software research and development does not need to expend too much energy, can be "one-stop" solution. In contrast, the Android platform is divided into upper application end, middle layer soft and hard integration platform and lower hardware driver.　　Among them, the middle-level soft hard integration is Taiwan hardware manufacturer's soft rib. "When it comes to software and services from hardware manufacturing, it is a big challenge for traditional OEM manufacturers."　　"In Yanhui's view, in contrast, the mainland's IT industry has accumulated rapidly in recent years in software research and development, especially based on arm and Android architectures." In this context, Taiwan's traditional hardware manufacturers for software research and development talent "scramble" quietly. This reporter learned that, in early June, benevolence treasure in Kunshan base, Foxconn in Shenzhen base, recently launchedLarge-scale software research and development personnel recruitment work. [Page] to the mainland to dig people Taiwan hardware manufacturers also through the search company around the corner "just and BenQ (BenQ) Friends Chat, Taiwan manufacturers are indeed digging around the software talent, very short."　　In the afternoon of June 3, Xu, general manager of Shenzhen Chuang Zhi Cheng Technology Co., Ltd., who was in Taipei Computer exhibition, sent a message to reporters.　　According to our correspondent, in addition to regular recruitment, Taiwan hardware manufacturers also through search companies around the corner, including the mainland Shanzhai manufacturers of Android Research and development engineers, also become the object of Taiwan hardware manufacturers coveted. "In fact, the Shenzhen cottage manufacturers, is the earliest to engage in Android research and development of a group."　　"A Shenzhen original Shanzhai manufacturer told reporters that early in the early 2009, the cottage machine market profits continued to decline, some of the Shanzhai machine manufacturers began to research and development based on Android, in order to expect to seize the market as soon as possible, pull low prices. One useful fact is that, as early as July 2009, Shenzhen mobile phone design company launched the first mobile phone based on the Android platform.　　(See this newspaper July 24, 2009 reported "Shenzhen Robin race android: Sniper Gphone into China") "Because of the instability of the Android system, plus the cost is too high. In fact, the vast majority of Shanzhai manufacturers launched the Android phone, did not succeed.　　"But this experience has gained experience for Android research," said the Shanzhai manufacturer.　　More than that, compared to Taiwan's hardware manufacturers in the Wintel framework to pour too much resources, and in the arm and Android architecture faces "ship disaster turn" dilemma, the mainland electronics companies appear "light". For example, Fuzhou Rui-core microelectronics is the first mainland by MP3 transformation of the Android platform developed by the chip design company, in January this year, Rui-core Microelectronics launched its first Android based smart devices to provide a full range of solutions rk29xx, including smartphones, MID, tablets, e-books,　　Network television, MP4 and other electronic devices.　　In this context, benevolence, MediaTek, MStar have built research and development institutions in the mainland, recruiting a large number of localization software research and development personnel, including Android engineers become "hot". The shortage of Android developers in tight Android engineers is in short supply, with many competing wages and salaries "until today, Android research engineers are still in demand."　　Xu on the phone with emotion. Chong-Chi was once the largest local motherboard manufacturer in Shenzhen, in the flash of the era of netbooks, Chuang Zhi was once occupy Shenzhen netbook market shipments of more than 50%.　　Since then, its rapid transfer to the Android tablet computer Research and development, Shenzhen is one of the first batch of manufacturers into the Android platform. "The company has hundreds of research and development teams, but AndroiD Research and development talent is still tight.　　Xu told the newspaper reporter. According to Xu Analysis, the current Android research and development engineers present a scarcity situation, there are mainly two reasons.　　First, the Android system is not listed for a long time, the relevant technical talent reserves are still in the accumulation stage; the other is the instability of the Android system, which raises the difficulty of developing the relevant technicians. In fact, the mainland's Android research and development compared to Taiwan, still at the forefront. "Many of the mainland's Android platform developers have been transformed by MP3 and mobile platforms, and they have an advantage in moving portable electronic devices," he said.　　"Xu Analysis, in the development process, these platform vendors are better at dealing with low-power and portable balance."　　By contrast, Taiwan's large number of hardware companies, built on traditional PC jobs, are less capable of research and development based on mobile internet applications. "Since last year, there have been a lot of Taiwanese hardware companies recruiting Android engineers in Shenzhen," he said.　　Xu told reporters that the Android development engineers are in a tight situation, with many competing wages and salaries rising. According to our correspondent understand, at present a senior Android engineer annual salary can get about 500,000, and a two years of Android engineers, monthly salary can be close to 20,000