xSeries development center is the first such facility established by IBM outside the U.S. IBM Corp. has set up a development center for its xSeries servers in Taiwan to be closer to Taiwanese hardware manufacturers, the company said in a statement released last week.The xSeries Taiwan Development Center is the first such facility established by IBM outside the U.S. and will play an important role in building a closer relationship between Taiwanese hardware makers and IBM for the development of servers based on processors from Intel Corp., it said.The xSeries line of servers includes a range of products based on Intel’s Xeon processors, including rack-mounted servers, tower servers, blade servers as well as clustered servers and storage products, according to IBM’s Web site. The center will initially connect Taiwanese hardware makers with IBM’s global server development resources, the statement said. In the future, the center will also work with Taiwanese hardware makers to develop new products and promote global technology standards for Intel-based servers, it said.The xSeries Taiwan Development Center is the third research and development facility to be set up by IBM in Taiwan. The company also has its China Software Development Lab and Life Sciences Center of Excellence in Taiwan. Technology IndustrySoftware DevelopmentSmall and Medium Business