11 Chinese Companies Caught Poaching Taiwanese R&D Talent

Eleven Chinese Companies Identified for Illegally Recruiting R&D Talent from Taiwan
Research Results Including SSD Storage Technology Transferred to China

Eleven Chinese companies involved in poaching R&D personnel from Taiwan have been identified.

Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Justice of Taiwan conducting an investigation. Photo by Yonhap News

According to Taiwanese media such as Liberty Times and United Daily News on the 30th, the Investigation Bureau under Taiwan's Ministry of Justice, which investigates national security-related crimes, announced that it conducted investigations on 11 Chinese capital-related companies across Taiwan from the 18th to the 27th.

It is reported that these Chinese companies used Taiwanese job platforms to offer high salaries and illegally hired R&D personnel. They were confirmed to have transferred research results, including solid-state drive (SSD) storage technology, to China for the benefit of Chinese companies.

The Investigation Bureau specifically explained that SMIC (Zhongxin Guoji), known as the "Chinese TSMC," established a company in American Samoa, a Pacific island territory, and in 2010 disguised it under foreign capital to set up a subsidiary in the northern Hsinchu area.

Earlier, Taiwan's Legislative Yuan (National Assembly) amended the National Security Act in May 2022 to impose a maximum prison sentence of 12 years for stealing national core technologies and to allow fines of more than twice the amount of illicit gains.

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