Intel and Microsoft Staff Allegedly Lured To Work For Fake Chinese Company In Taiwan (theregister.com) 12
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., Ltd and develops high-end network chips. The Bureau claims its chips are used in China's "Data East, Compute West" strategy that, as we reported when it was announced in 2022, calls for five million racks full of kit to be moved from China's big cities in the east to new datacenters located near renewable energy sources in country's west. Datacenters in China's east will be used for latency-sensitive applications, while heavy lifting takes place in the west. Staff from Intel and Microsoft were apparently lured to work for Yunhe Zhiwang, which disguised its true ownership by working through a Singaporean company.
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. That's a concerning scenario as SMIC is on the USA's "entity list" of organizations felt to represent a national security risk. The US gets tetchy when its friends and allies work with companies on the entity list.
A third Chinese entity, Shenzhen Tongrui Microelectronics Technology, disguised itself so well Taiwan's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology lauded it as an important innovator and growth company. 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.
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. That's a concerning scenario as SMIC is on the USA's "entity list" of organizations felt to represent a national security risk. The US gets tetchy when its friends and allies work with companies on the entity list.
A third Chinese entity, Shenzhen Tongrui Microelectronics Technology, disguised itself so well Taiwan's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology lauded it as an important innovator and growth company. 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.
Plenty of Intel people to hire now... (Score:3)
I'm surprised SMIC doesn't have easy pickings these days. While US companies are still figuring out what limbs to continue searching for to amputate, SMIC is still going, because of government funding. I'm surprised they have not found a lot of leads among the ex-Intel crowd. Especially with the fact that they laid off all the Centaur people who are used to working with Taiwanese/Chinese counterparts.
So......they're hiring? (Score:4, Funny)
Asking for a friend, of course.
Fake? (Score:1, Funny)
Taiwan is part of China, so they're just remote offices. How are they fake?
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Taiwan is part of China, ...
That's something mainland China and Taiwan both agree on even.
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The one-China policy is this: "The United States acknowledges that Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States does not challenge that position."
A lot of people misunderstand this (or they never bothered to read it in the first place). One key concept is, what does "China" mean? The one China policy DOES NOT STATE that Taiwan is a part of the People's Republic of China. Only that the ROC claims to be the legitimate governm
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"Fake Chinese Company" (Score:2)
They are Chinese companies.
They are not "Fake Chinese Companies".
Intel and Microsoft .. (Score:2)