Taiwan Prosecutors Accuse China’s Bitmain of Illegally Poaching TSMC, MediaTek Engineers

[soAsian]

Taiwan Prosecutors Accuse China's Bitmain of Illegally Poaching TSMC, MediaTek Engineers

Front company of China-based Bitmain paid engineers in Taiwan a minimum of $250,000 to develop AI algorithms

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seem like its ongoing with poaching...did China gain anything from poaching engineers?

 

[Daniel Nenni]

seem like its ongoing with poaching...did China gain anything from poaching engineers?

A lot of legal problems. Poaching is a world wide problem, always has been for the semiconductor industry. It's called deconsolidation. We did a podcast on it which is worth a listen, absolutely:

Podcast EP10: The M&A Landscape for Semis and EDA - Semiwiki

Dan and Mike are once again joined by Dr. Walden Rhines for an overview of the M&A scene for semiconductors and EDA. Wally discusses the periodic expansion and contraction of these markets along with the factors that cause these trends. Wally concludes with a view of the future. Wally Rhines is...

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Where would the semiconductor industry be without it?

 

[tonyget]

It's called brain-drain，the US is the biggest beneficiary of this.