The hardware engineering group at the EMC China COE is a part of the EMC global hardware R&D organization. The team is chartered with strategic goals to ensure efficient operation in product development by leveraging their inherent advantages of the regional presence. The organization is made of engineers with multi-disciplinary expertise in order to enable end-to-end hardware platform design and validation. The center is equipped with state-of-the-art hardware engineering and QA labs capable of supplementing next generation R&D as well as validation to ensure superior design quality.