The logo hangs on the Beijing Branch building of the Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) on December 4, 2020 in Beijing, China.
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Taiwan Investigators on Friday claimed that the Chinese producer Chips Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co. (SMIC) The talent of advanced technologies has been illegally recruited.
The Taiwan Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MiJB) stated in a statement that SMIC used the entity from Samoo as protection to establish a subsidiary on the island “under the guise of foreign investment” and “actively recruits talent from Taiwan.
CNBC was not able to independently verify the claims, and SMIC was not immediately available to comment.
The ministry announced that Taiwan began studying this issue in December 2024. Eleven Chinese enterprises suspected of talent paoching were examined, said that the agents conducted a search in 34 locations and questioned 90 people.
SMIC is the largest Chinese production company of semiconductors. He was thrown into the center of attention in 2023, when it was He revealed that he is the creator With 7 nanometer at that time on the Huawei smartphone. A few years earlier, Smic was placed on the black list of exports of the US government.
China is trying to increase their abilities related to the chin via SMIC, but the company remains behind competitors like TSMC in Taiwan. Limitations of export chip imposed by the US mean that SMIC is unable Get access to the latest chip production tools from critical suppliers such as ASML This He could let him catch up.
Taiwan is a habitat of talents in the semiconductor industry, because it is home for TSMC, the largest and most advanced chip manufacturer in the world. The US tried to take advantage of this talent and introduce more chips possibilities TSMC conviction to build greater production capacity in the country.
Mjib from Taiwan said that at the end of 2020 he created a special task group to examine the allegations of “illegal poaching” of talents.
“Chinese projects often hide their identity with various means, including in creating operations under the guise of Taiwanese, foreign Chinese or investment companies, while in reality they are supported by Chinese capital, establishing unauthorized business locations in Taiwan without approval by the government, and the use of employment agencies for false designation of employees to a Tajwan company”