Taiwan is investigating whether China’s leading chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. illegally poached local engineers as part of an effort to access the island’s cutting-edge chip technology.
SMIC set up a branch in Taiwan posing as a Samoa-based company and tried to hire local talent, prosecutors from****Taiwan’s Investigation Bureau said Friday in a statement.
Local investigators raided 34 locations and conducted 90 interrogations this month as part of a large-scale probe into 11 Chinese tech companies including SMIC, according to the bureau, which is part of the justice ministry. A SMIC representative did not respond to requests for comment.
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