China’s Fujian Cook Intelligent Technology, without the permission of the Investment Review Committee of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, illegally set up a private R&D center in Taiwan, poaching talents from technology companies such as Delta Electronics and Hon Hai Precision Industry with high salaries.

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[Reporter Qian Lizhong/Taipei Report] Fujian Cook Intelligent Technology, a major virtual currency mining machine manufacturer in China, illegally set up an R&D center in Taiwan without the permission of the Investment Review Committee of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and poached talents from technology companies such as Delta Electronics and Hon Hai Precision Industry with high salaries , The New Taipei City Prosecutor’s Office commanded the New Taipei City Investigation Division of the Investigation Bureau yesterday to search and interview 9 people including Lin Chengting, the person in charge and product director of the company in Taiwan, and Luo Shijie, the director and executive director. Lin Nan and Luo Nan were ordered to pay 200,000 yuan and Luo Nan 50,000 yuan respectively.

According to reports from the inspection and investigation, from 2019 to 2021, China's Beijing Bitmain invested 1.3 billion yuan to poach R&D talents from major domestic semiconductor manufacturers. Without the permission of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the R&D center was set up privately in Taiwan, and Luo Shijie, director and CEO of Fujian Cook Intelligent Technology, and Lin Chengting, product director, illegally established a head company "Rogers Artificial Intelligence" in Taiwan with Chinese capital, and was established by Lin Chengting is the named person in charge.

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The company paid more than twice the original annual salary to poach R&D talents from high-tech companies such as Delta Electronics and Hon Hai Precision Industry with superb R&D capabilities, and at the same time publicly recruited talents from the job bank. It spent about 150 million yuan in more than two years. A total of 50 high-level engineers were poached before and after to develop 3D face recognition technology for Chinese companies, and the products have been sold to well-known fitness companies in Taiwan, seriously threatening the development of my country's high-tech industry.

The whole case originated from the New Taipei City Prosecutor’s investigation and handling of the case of China’s Beijing Bitmain Technology’s illegal investment in Taiwan to poach corners. Privately set up R&D and business centers, offering more than twice the original annual salary and other conditions, poaching a total of 122 R&D talents in my country; Xinbei Inspection believes that Wu Zhenxi, Chairman of Beijing Jingshi Intelligent, Cao Xikang, Vice Chairman, Yan Jinzhong, head of Zhicheng Technology, and Xindao Internet The person in charge, Huang Zhihui, has pleaded guilty and has remorse. Considering that there is no illegal act of stealing commercial secrets such as violating the trade secret law, he was prosecuted in August last year for violating the Regulations on Relations Between People Between the Straits and other crimes, and each had to pay a fine of 300,000 yuan.

Bitmain only fined 300,000 each in the poaching case in Taiwan, and suspend the prosecution. The infringement of our industry and technology by Chinese capital has attracted attention.

(Bloomberg)