IN FOCUS: Probes launched into 100 Chinese chip firms for poaching and design theft
Taiwan’s spy catchers have launched probes into approximately 100 Chinese companies suspected of illegally poaching semiconductor engineers along with chip designs, a senior official at the Investigation Bureau said. That is on top of seven firms prosecuted since the start of last year and 27 that have either been raided or whose owners have been been questioned by the bureau, the official said. Home to industry giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) and accounting for 92 percent of the world’s most advanced chip manufacturing capacity, Taiwan has the expertise China needs. A g...
Source: taipeitimes.com
