[RussianConservative]

Still, some IT development work can be done only in the U.S., said Richard Brown, associate vice president of marketing at Via Technologies Inc. in Taipei, Taiwan. For example, the design and development of Via's PC chip-set products is done in Taiwan, but the company's CPU and graphics-chips products are designed by teams in the U.S., reflecting the dominance of the U.S. in those product areas, he said

Why?

[elfman2]

"Why?"

Cultural barriers. Technology’s so ingrained into many dynamic business functions that very close working relationships are imperative. Constantly passing requirements and modifications back and forth across the Internet to foreigners is too bureaucratic for nimble operations.