TSMC Wins Lawsuit Against Ex-Employee Now at Samsung

'He has to quit working for Samsung,' says TSMC

Alan Patterson, EETimes
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.

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