What Taiwan can teach South Korea about China’s chip tech theft — SkimNews
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- Three engineers left a South Korean semiconductor testing-components company in November 2023 for a Chinese employer offering twice their previous salaries.
- South Korea’s Intellectual Property Office alleges that the engineers took proprietary probe-card designs.
Why it matters: The case connects three engineer departures, a Chinese employer offering twice prior salaries and alleged removal of proprietary probe-card designs. That gives South Korea’s Intellectual Property Office a concrete case in which employee recruitment and chip-technology transfer intersect, making compensation a specific mechanism behind the alleged theft rather than a separate labor-market story.
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