Get the latest tech news

Intel and Microsoft Staff Allegedly Lured To Work For Fake Chinese Company In Taiwan


Taiwanese authorities have accused 11 Chinese companies, including SMIC, of secretly setting up disguised entities in Taiwan to illegally recruit tech talent from firms like Intel and Microsoft. The Register reports: One of those companies is apparently called Yunhe Zhiwang (Shanghai) Technology Co...

Taiwanese authorities have accused 11 Chinese companies, including SMIC, of secretly setting up disguised entities in Taiwan to illegally recruit tech talent from firms like Intel and Microsoft. The Investigation Bureau also alleged that China's largest chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), used a Samoan company to establish a presence in Taiwan and then hired local talent. As a result of the Bureau's work, prosecutors' offices in seven Taiwanese cities are now looking into 11 Chinese companies thought to have hidden their ties to Beijing.

Get the Android app

Or read this on Slashdot

Read more on:

Photo of Microsoft

Microsoft

Photo of Intel

Intel

Photo of Taiwan

Taiwan

Related news:

News photo

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan Says Company Will Spin Off Non-Core Units

News photo

Microsoft uses AI to find flaws in GRUB2, U-Boot, Barebox bootloaders

News photo

‘Xbox handheld’ teased by Asus, as Microsoft slyly suggests this is really launching