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TSMC Ex-Employee Charged with Smuggling 16nm and 10nm IP to HLMC

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A former employee of TSMC, Taiwan's premier silicon fabrication foundry, has been charged with stealing trade-secrets to his next employer across the straits. Mentioned as "Chou" by DigiTimes, the employee has been charged with IP theft and smuggling trade-secrets of vital 10 nanometer and 16 nanometer silicon fabrication technologies over to his next job at Shanghai Huali Microelectronics (HLMC).

Before Chou could flee TSMC to HLMC, he was arrested by Taiwan Police, and indicted for breach of trust. With the matter now in the hands of the applicable District Prosecutors' Office, it has become subjudice and TSMC isn't issuing comments. Development of 10 nanometer (and newer) silicon fabrication nodes is proving exceedingly costly and painstaking for foundry companies, and it hurts their future just that much worse when someone does away with billions of dollars worth R&D.
Source: DigiTimes

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32 Comments on TSMC Ex-Employee Charged with Smuggling 16nm and 10nm IP to HLMC

#26
EsaT
Prima.VeraRegarding I.T., just look at their phone industry. ALL phone vendors are only releasing iPhone clones, no original designs, no innovations, no anything.
For that you should blame western consumers buying what marketing and fashion tells them to buy.
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#27
trparky
Prima.VeraRegarding I.T., just look at their phone industry. ALL phone vendors are only releasing iPhone clones, no original designs, no innovations, no anything.
Then again, how many other ways can you present a smart glass slab with a touchscreen? Not many other ways man.
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#28
StrayKAT
FlankerSinophobia is real here
I hope you're not talking about me. I'm Asian. And I already said it in this thread.

All I care about here is ideas and abstracts.
Prima.VeraChinese do what Chinese do best. STEALING and COPYING stuff. From nuclear weapons, industry, etc, to Intellectual Property.
Regarding I.T., just look at their phone industry. ALL phone vendors are only releasing iPhone clones, no original designs, no innovations, no anything.
Just copying either Apple or/and Samsung

/thumbs down China.
Software wise, it's sad that Blackberry and MS got pushed out. I, for one, liked MS's interface. And Blackberry was based on QNX... which has always been an impressive OS (before they got bought out).
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#29
R-T-B
OctopussIt is. In a way at least. I assume vast majority of people who would think about commiting a crime wouldn't actually do it if they knew capital punishment was possible.
I think you'd be surprised when you start talking about a very very large sum of money...
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#30
remixedcat
Vayra86Or China doesn't really care much about playing fair against one of its main opponents; successful businesses in Taiwan, a 'province' that just won't become a province of China.
#twexit??

and TSMC also had ransomware, and some other disaster happen... wow they need to get their act togetha!
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#31
R-T-B
remixedcat#twexit??

and TSMC also had ransomware, and some other disaster happen... wow they need to get their act togetha!
Like Boeing does too I imagine... and a huge list of ransomware affected companies.

What other disaster, anyways?
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#32
remixedcat
R-T-BLike Boeing does too I imagine... and a huge list of ransomware affected companies.

What other disaster, anyways?
they had some kinda natural disaster
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