Huawei Technologies is heading west. The company has announced that its plan to open a new research and development center this month in Bellevue, Washington, which will employ as much as 100 workers.

Huawei vice president of external affairs William Plummer said the research and development office of Huawei Technologies based in North America will hire up to 100 people by 2017. The soon-to-be Huawei's satellite will be located at the heart of Bellevue's business center, the Plaza Center Bellevue. The leased office is on the fifth floor and spans up to 11,000 square feet.

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Broderick Group senior vice president Grant Yerke suggests that the current office may not be enough to accomodate a hundred employees.

Bellevue, which is more or less 12 miles east of Seattle, is a strategic location as the Greater Seattle area is a hot spot for tech firms and home to some notable tech giants like Expedia, Microsoft and T-Mobile. Aside from that, Greater Seattle's healthy environment, pool of talent for tech firm developments and relatively cheaper costs that Northern California's Silicon Valley are other perks.

The CEO of adSage Zhaohui Tang believes that the company chose the city as it is also the home of cloud computing technology development. On the other hand, the president of the Association of Technology and Innovation president Bill Liu thinks the company would benefit from its move to Seattle as Bellevue is crowded with talented programmers and developers.

Meanwhile, the city of Bellevue has expressed its excitement over Huawei's decision to establish a center in the area, according to Bellevue's economic development director James Henderson.

Of Huawei's 150,000 workers worldwide, 70,000 are working in R&D. During the CES 2016, Huawei anticipated to become the biggest smartphone maker in the world, outranking Apple in two to three years and Samsung by 2021.

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