Reply To: Flagship Chinese chipmaker collapses before it makes a single chip Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor’s 7nm ambitions are dust One of China’s next-generation chipmakers appears to have collapsed, potentially hampering the nation’s march to silicon-self-sufficiency. Chinese electronics industry journal Jiwei reported that Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor…

[UK Sentinel]

This was interesting how Chinese are recruiting semiconductor talent for China

Two Taiwanese companies accused of recruiting semiconductor talent for China

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Investigators are probing whether two Taiwanese companies illegally recruited hundreds of local semiconductor workers on behalf of Chinese chip design companies.

The New Taipei District Prosecutors Office received reports that claimed WiseCore Technology Co. and IC Link Limited Co. had been helping Chinese chip design companies to recruit talent from Taiwan via Chinese-financed startups, CNA reported.

Investigators found that the Chinese hired former R&D staff from Taiwanese IC design companies as presidents of the startups. These presidents would then recruit former colleagues to join them at the new ventures, which would set up large R&D centers in Taiwan and pay salaries twice the going rate.

At the same time, the R&D centers also used online job banks to headhunt. In the last three years, hundreds of Taiwanese have been recruited by Chinese companies via these channels, seriously affecting Taiwan’s semiconductor industry, CNA cited investigators’ reports as saying.

Read More: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4146306

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom (J.G.Ballard).

You need to login in order to vote