Chinese chip manufacturers get rid of US stealing commercial confidential allegations

A chip manufacturer in China has got rid of criminal allegations such as economic espionage proposed by the US Department of Justice, marking that Washington's crackdown on Chinese stolen intellectual property rights is frustrated.

According to Bloomberg, Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co., Ltd. was included in the blacklist by the Ministry of Commerce in 2018 by the Ministry of Commerce on the grounds that the US Judge Maxine M. Chesney was on Tuesday (February 27th) After the trial of the unpaid trial, the company's economic espionage was not guilty.

Jessney said that the US prosecutor cannot prove that Jinhua Integrated Circuit stole the proprietary data from Micron Technology, the largest memory chip manufacturer in the United States.The U.S. prosecutors accused that Jinhua stole the technology of Micron Technology through a cooperation agreement with Taiwan Lianhua Electronics.

According to the statement of the US Department of Justice's initial lawsuit, if the Jinhua Integrated Circuit was established, the company may face a fine and will be ordered to confiscate the income from chips and suspected theft of technology.

Bloomberg reported that this judgment was of great significance. Although the United States tracked the intellectual property rights to China illegally and successfully convicted multiple entities or individuals, the Ministry of Justice rarely sued Chinese companies in the US courtEssenceThis ruling may crack down on the Bayeng government's prosecution to protect American technology.

According to Chinese media reports, Fujian Jinhua has signed a technical cooperation agreement with Taiwan in 2016 to entrust Taiwan's UMC to develop 32 nanometer random memory (DRAM) related technologies.According to the agreement, Fujian Jinhua will provide special equipment and pay the technical remuneration of the development progress payment.

But before the signing of the agreement, the three executives from Micron's departure jobs were hopped into UMC, including Chen Zhengkun, who later served as the senior deputy general manager of UMC, and Chen Zhengkun also served as the general manager of Jinhua.In 2017, Micron successively sued UMC and Fujian Jinhua in Taiwan and the United States on the grounds of stealing business secrets and patent infringement.The U.S. Department of Justice also filed a criminal lawsuit against the Jinhua Circuit in 2018.

Taiwan Union Power acknowledged theft of business secrets in 2020 and agreed to pay a fine of US $ 60 million (S $ 80.62 million). At the same time, it promised to assist in the case of the US Department of Justice's sue of Jinhua.

However, Micron reached a settlement with Jinhua in December last year. The two companies will withdraw their allegations to each other globally and terminate all legal lawsuits.