TSMC Wins Lawsuit Against Ex-Employee Now at Samsung
'He has to quit working for Samsung,' says TSMC
8/25/2015 10:50 AM EDT
TAIPEI — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world’s largest chip foundry, has won a lawsuit against a former R&D employee who leaked secrets including 28-nm process technology to Samsung, South Korea’s largest company.
Taiwan’s Supreme Court decided in favor of TSMC against Liang Mong-song, a former senior director of R&D at TSMC's Advanced Modules Technology Division. After leaving TSMC, Liang became Samsung's System LSI division chief technology officer.
To read the full article, click here
Related Semiconductor IP
- MIPI D-PHY and FPD-Link (LVDS) Combinational Transmitter for TSMC 22nm ULP
- 12-bit, 400 MSPS SAR ADC - TSMC 12nm FFC
- General use, integer-N 4GHz Hybrid Phase Locked Loop on TSMC 28HPC
- Process/Voltage/Temperature Sensor with Self-calibration (Supply voltage 1.2V) - TSMC 3nm N3P
- 25MHz to 4.0GHz Fractional-N RC PLL Synthesizer on TSMC 3nm N3P
Related News
- MIPS Technologies and Lexra Resolve Lawsuit - Lexra Becomes a MIPS32 Architecture Licensee
- ARM and picoTurbo Inc. Settle Patent Lawsuit
- ARM Releases Details Of Infringement Lawsuit
- picoTurbo Receives Favorable Ruling in Patent Infringement Lawsuit Initiated by ARM
Latest News
- ASICLAND Partners with Daegu Metropolitan City to Advance Demonstration and Commercialization of Korean AI Semiconductors
- SEALSQ and Lattice Collaborate to Deliver Unified TPM-FPGA Architecture for Post-Quantum Security
- SEMIFIVE Partners with Niobium to Develop FHE Accelerator, Driving U.S. Market Expansion
- TASKING Delivers Advanced Worst-Case Timing Coupling Analysis and Mitigation for Multicore Designs
- Efficient Computer Raises $60 Million to Advance Energy-Efficient General-Purpose Processors for AI