Besides cooperation within Panasonic Group in key technology, product
development, commodity design, it also actively promotes partnership
with other companies to collaborate with R&D departments of
those companies.
There are more than 60 universities and 40 governmental institutions
including Chinese Science Academy in Zhongguancun. PRDCC is just
located in the center of Zhongguancun and shall make advantage of
the favorable geographical position to promote technology exchange
with those universities and research institutions.
PRDCC started collaboration with Automation
Laboratories of Chinese Science Academy in the field of
speech recognition in December of 1999.
Advanced Mobile Communication Laboratories
committed research with Tsinghua University and Beijing
Post and Communication University on 3G TD-SCDMA.
In July of 2000, PRDCC built up [ Tsinghua-Matsushita
DVD Authoring Cooperative Lab ] in Tsinghua University,
collaborating on the field of DVD with the aim of establishing
high-quality program editing technology of DVD.