US chipmaker Micron to hire 800 workers in Taiwan to counter poaching from Chinese rivals
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/04/26
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — U.S.-based chipmaker Micron Technology is planning hire at
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least 800 new workers in Taiwan by 2019 to counter poaching efforts by Chinese rivals, reported the Nikkei Asian Review.
The memory chipmaker has lost hundreds of engineers since its acquisition of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) maker Inotera Memories (華亞科) in 2016, which was a joint venture with Taiwanese company Nanya Technology (南亞科). Chinese rival chipmakers are luring away Taiwanese engineers by offering salaries five times higher than what they make in Taiwan.
Wang Wen-yuan (王文淵), president of the Formosa Plastics Group (FPG) conglomerate last week told CNA that Chinese rivals have lured away 48 high level technicians from Nanya Technology, while Inotera Memories lost more than 400 employees. [FULL STORY]
