>A former Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) engineer has been charged with stealing secrets from the pure-play foundry.
>Former TSMC engineer, Hsu is accused of stealing proprietary information and other materials related to the foundry's 28nm process technology and passing them to China-based Shanghai Huali Microelectronics (HLMC), according to the Hsinchu District Prosecutors Office.
>Hsu had accepted a job offer at Shanghai Huali Microelectronics (HLMC), but was arrested before starting the new job in Shanghai.
>A report earlier in 2017 cited industry sources saying HLMC had headhunted a team of nearly 50 United Microelectronics (UMC) R&D engineers to help the China-based foundry move its 28nm process technology to mass production as early as possible.
>Various reports also cited unspecified sources indicating China-based memory chipmakers have been aggressively headhunting talent from Taiwan-based DRAM and fabless companies.
>US-based Micron Technology has reportedly taken legal actions against former employees at its Taiwan-based subsidiaries Inotera Memories and Rexchip Electronics, who allegedly stole the company's trade secrets and technologies to help China-based firms develop key DRAM technologies.
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20170503PD202.html
http://wccftech.com/tech-secrets-nvidia-amd-tsmc-stolen/
ATTENTION, IT'S OVER! ATTENTION, IT'S OVER! MICROSOFT, NVIDIA, AMD AND MICRON ARE FINISHED AND BANKRUPT!
>28nm
it's fucking nothing
>28nm planar
>WOW, IT'S FUCKING NOTHING
>spying exists
No shit
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-06-10/ex-amd-workers-at-nvidia-lose-bid-to-end-secrets-lawsuit
>>60211780
>>60211787
>>60211938
Nice try, HLMC.
>>60211757
>chinks steal things
>being surprised by this in the current year of 2010+5+2
>>60211757
> trusting chinks, ever
chip fabbing is so utterly automated that I can't understand why western companies don't try to have their shit made in western countries.
>>60213481
They planning to do
>not wanting more fabs and cheaper RAM and NAND
In any case, those trade secrets are probably useless given that ASML won't sell any sub-65nm lithography equipment to the Chinese.
>>60211757
>28nm
what are the current capabilities of the chinks?
>>60214792
two is always best. this way ones cheap and decent and the others price and amazing. with 3 everything goes to shit and it gets confusing who to buy from and who to trust