As the exclusive supplier of Apple's iPhone A series chips, TSMC's confidentiality work has been quite good. The TSMC production line suffered a virus attack some time ago, but this did not affect TSMC's production progress.
According to Taiwan media reports, an employee of Taiwan's A-series chip supplier TSMC was accused of stealing secrets from the company and trying to bring these secrets to a new company while trying to get Apple's order.
It is reported that after the employee was arrested, it was explained that it was stealing confidential documents of TSMC's 16nm and 10nm process technology and related equipment, and was therefore charged with violating integrity.
In 2015, TSMC also had an incident in which employees leaked research and development secrets. The beneficiary of the incident was Samsung. After that leak, Samsung completely surpassed TSMC in the chip manufacturing business.
In the hot industry of mobile phone chips, Samsung, TSMC and Intel are particularly competitive as the three leading players today. Good competition not only helps to increase production capacity, but also promotes technological innovation. But this kind of abnormal competition is a blow to enterprises. Huge, and in the long run, it is extremely detrimental to the development of the entire industry.
