Taiwan facing tough battle to curb talent poaching by China
Taiwan is facing a tough battle with China right now as the latter is reportedly poaching talent from Taipei in its bid to become self-reliant in manufacturing computer chips.For some time now, Taiwan’s engineers are being lured to the mainland.On March 9, Taiwanese prosecutors had raided the offices of two companies who were alleged to have been funded by a chip design firm based in the Chinese mainland.The firm was suspected to have financial links to Bitmain technologies in Beijing, the world’s largest manufacturer of cryptocurrency-mining equipment.“We suspect that the two companies – WiseCore Technology in New Taipei City and IC Link in Hsinchu – were set up by the Chinese company and that their top executives had in the past three years illegally recruited several hundred local engin