Comprehensive Taiwan media reports that Taiwan’s IGS and Core Road are suspected of cooperating with mainland Chinese chip design companies to set up private R&D centers and form high-paid poaching groups to poach hundreds of Taiwan’s semiconductor talents in three years, which involves violating cross-strait people’s relations regulations. The prosecution today divided into seven search, interviewed 19 people.
The case stems from the fact that the Chinese company “Bitmain”, which operates bitcoin trading and designs custom chips for bitcoin mining machines, set up a subsidiary “Crystal Vision Intelligence” to develop AI chips, and poached men from Taiwan, surnamed Wu and Cao, who formerly worked for a major technology company, as directors and vice directors respectively. In addition to helping to improve technology, and through the two men’s contacts, in Taiwan’s technology circle, a large “hunting head”.
Wu and Cao assisted the mainland side in setting up two companies in Taiwan, namely IGS and Core Road, to disguise their Chinese background and form a team to scout for corners to attract high-tech talents to jump ship with two times the annual salary.
The Chinese side even used the names of IGS and Core Road to recruit talents with high salaries on the websites of human resources banks. The frequent actions have alerted Taiwan government agencies and found that hundreds of high-level technology engineers, especially R&D masters in the field of IC design, have been poached in the past three years, causing not only a large loss of talents but also the risk of outflow of key core technologies, which has threatened the development of Taiwan’s semiconductor industry.
It is understood that the poached technology majors include MediaTek, Sun & Moon and other companies, and some of the poached engineers had worked for TSMC. The Chinese media reported last year that MediaTek sent a letter to the company to call on the Core Road, warning not to infringe on intellectual property rights and business secrets, and also reminded the jumped employees not to violate the non-compete rules to avoid breaking the law.
The Taiwan prosecutor issued a press release today stating that prosecutor Hong Songbiao of the special group for black money laundering today directed the New Taipei City Investigation Office to search seven places, including Smart IGS and Core Road, and seize payroll passbooks, employee confidentiality agreements, admission notices, employee rosters, employment contracts, electromagnetic records, cell phones, laptops and other exhibits.
The prosecution said that according to the announcement of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, business undertakings, semiconductor operators, legal entities and people from the mainland shall not come to Taiwan to invest or set up semiconductor industry companies or branches, and in accordance with the regulations on relations between the people of Taiwan and the mainland and the regulations on the permission of people from the mainland to invest in Taiwan, they shall not engage in business activities in Taiwan unless they are permitted by the Investment Review Committee of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the competent authority, and set up branches or offices in Taiwan. business activities.
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