With Hewlett-Packard (HP) Taiwan officially moving into its new office in Nangang, Taipei on October 11, an executive of the company pointed out that although most of the company's research and development will remain in the US, the company will start shifting some R&D to Taiwan.

The executives used an example and pointed out that HP may have 85% of its products developed outside of Taiwan with only 15% in Taiwan, but in the future, the proportion outside of Taiwan may drop to only 60% with Taiwan's portion to increase to 40%.

Since HP has a lot of partners in Taiwan, releasing more R&D resources to its Taiwan base should help strengthen the communications between HP and its partners, as problems such as the time difference between Taiwan and the US, will be eliminated.