Taiwan boosts protection of key tech, but says won't affect chipmakers' business
Taiwan makes the majority of the world's most advanced semiconductor chips, used in everything from smartphones to electric vehicles, and the government has long worried about Chinese efforts to copy its success, including through industrial espionage and poaching engineers.
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Offering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data Science & Machine LearningVisitNorthwestern UniversityKellogg Post Graduate Certificate in Product ManagementVisitIIM KozhikodeIIMK Senior Management ProgrammeVisit The list of 22 protected technologies announced by Taiwan's top science agency on Tuesday spanned five sectors: defence, space, agriculture, semiconductors, and information security.
The government had discussed including 14-nanometre or more advanced chip manufacturing and packaging technologies with relevant companies, Wang said, without naming any of the firms.
Taiwan is home to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world's largest contract chipmaker and supplier to companies including Apple and Nvidia.
«Manufacturers believe that their business will not be affected,» she told reporters.
Business secrets of the key technologies will be protected through the National Security Act, Wang said.
Employees will have to receive approval before going to China if more than half of the technology's funding came from government subsidies. Companies will be notified after an inventory of such technologies is taken, she said.
The list «aims to ensure national security and industrial competitiveness, strengthen protection of business secrets involving national core and key technologies, and avoid illegal outflows abroad that may infringe on national and
