2021.3 🇨🇳’s Bitmain has been poaching Taiwanese research and development talent to speed up its efforts on artificial intelligence chip capability by illegally setting up companies in Taiwan.
2021 3/9 A subsidiary of 🇨🇳’s Bitmain set up 2 entities, 智鈊 and 芯道, in 🇹🇼 and poached 200+ engineers from 🇹🇼 chip co’s in 3 years w/o approval from 🇹🇼 authorities. New Taipei District Prosecutor’s Office started investigation and searched 7 locations today./