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2021: The transition of the company's specialists to NM-Tech
On September 20, 2021, it became known about the transfer to LLC NM-Tech (100% at ВЭБ.РФ) of several dozen key specialists of the Taiwanese company UMC, which is one of the three leaders in the contract production of chips. Read more here.
2020: $60m fine for industrial espionage
At the end of October 2020, Taiwanese chipmaker United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) pleaded partially guilty in the case of theft of trade secrets from the American company Micron Technology, agreed to pay a fine of $60 million and assist law enforcement agencies in the proceedings with Fujian Jinhua.
UMC's plea comes more than two years after the U.S. Justice Department indicted Taiwanese chipmaker Fujian Jinhua and three individuals in industrial espionage against U.S. company Micron Technology.
The United States claims that the state-owned Chinese company Fujian Jinhua used this stolen data in the development of memory chips.
In a statement, the deputy attorney general said:
 | UMC stole the trade secrets of the American leader in the field of computer memory in order to give China the opportunity to achieve a strategic priority: self-sufficiency in the production of computer memory without spending its own time or money on it. |  |
The UMC pleaded guilty to only one count, namely obtaining and possessing stolen trade secrets, Reuters reported. The company insists it did not hand over data from Micron to Fujian.
UMC explained that the company's management did not know or authorize the actions of three of its employees who previously worked at Micron. One of them allowed Micron's trade secrets to be entered into an early draft of UMC's DRAM project, which the company was working on with Fujian Jinhua.
As part of the plea deal, the Justice Department will drop charges against UMC, including a charge of conspiracy to commit industrial espionage, while also withdrawing a related civil case.[1]
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