Taiwan accuses Chinese chipmakers of illegally poaching engineers

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Taiwan is investigating 11 Chinese technology companies, including the country’s leading chipmaker, on suspicion of illegally poaching its engineers, an indication of Beijing’s reliance on its neighbour’s world-leading semiconductor expertise.

Shanghai-based Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) set up a Samoa-registered entity to “poach talent…