COVETOUS CONTENDER: Chinese semiconductor firms have been poaching Taiwanese engineers in hopes of speeding up the country’s transition to a major player
Taipei Times
Date: Dec 09, 2017
By: Lisa Wang / Staff reporter
Prosecutors yesterday charged a former Nanya Technology Corp (南亞科技) employee
Nanya Technology Corp’s logo is displayed in front of the company’s headquarters in New Taipei City yesterday. Photo: Hung Yu-fang, Taipei Times
with theft related to 20-nanometer manufacturing know-how from the chipmaker, which the suspect allegedly attempted to transfer to a Chinese company.
it is the latest in a slew of corporate espionage cases uncovered by local companies in the memorychip industry, after five former employees of Inotera Memories Inc (華亞科技) were in September indicted for allegedly passing confidential information to a Chinese semiconductor firm.
The engineer, identified only as Lee, 46, was accused of stealing Nanya’s 20-nanometer technology in December last year while taking online courses provided by the company, the Taoyuan District Prosecutors’ Office said in a statement.
Lee, a former senior engineer at Nanya, memorized the manufacturing know-how from screenshots of the process technology and used it for a job interview with Xian UniIC Semiconductors Co Ltd (西安紫光國芯) in Shaanxi Province in January. [FULL STORY]
