"In late 2016 * * * [For the use of] state-owned Shanghai Huali Microelectronics Corp 上海華力微電子有限公司 [2010- ; 上海华虹 Huahong 集团子公司] * * * [a TSMC] engineer, Hsu Chih-Peng 徐 [copied TSMC's trade secrets]
"Last year, China paid $260 billion importing chips—60% more than it spent on oil.
"On a spring day in 2016, a 41-year-old engineer * * * Wang Yongming [王永銘; named Kenny Wang in the English-language New York Times report dated June 23, this year and my June 25 posting titled 美国芯片机密遭窃案背后，中国的科技大国雄心] found a file-erasing program called CCleaner [a software first released in 2003; by London-based Piriform Ltd], which he used to try to delete traces of more than 900 files from his laptop before returning it to his employer" Micron Taiwan. * * * Mr Wang was one of 50 who jumped to UMC after Stephen Chen [he has not been charged], former president at Micron Memory Taiwan, made the switch in July 2015. Mr Chen * * * [departed UMC and] joined Jinhua as president in February 2017
"Taiwanese prosecutors in December [Dec 7, 2017] charged a 46-year-old former employee [李智存] at Nanya Technology Corp 南亞科技股份有限公司, the world's fourth-largest memory-chip supplier, with stealing * * * DRAM, technology
Note:
(a) Both Chinese- and English-language WSJ reports are behind paywall.
(b) Regarding Hsu Chih-Peng 徐 in quotation 1. Unfortunately all Taiwanese news media only provided surname 徐. In fact this WSJ report is the first that gives his given name, albeit in English.
(c) "Its latest salvo, issued in February, is called '31 Measures' 惠台31项措施 and offers a raft of incentives to attract more Taiwanese businesses and highly educated people to study, invest and establish startups in China."
(d) In print there is a figure with three panels. The figure starts with a caption: (sarcastic) Technology Transfer: 's dominance of global semiconductor market has made it a target for intellectual-property theft originating in China, which is trying to cut down on chip imports." Panel 1 has its own heading: "Top wafer-producing economies by global market share*[:] Taiwan 67.6%> 9.4% > South Korea 8.9%> China 6.8%> Israel 2.4%, followed by others 4.9%. * At the end of 2017." Headings of Panel 2 and 3 are, respectively, "Cases of trade secrets theft in Taiwan" and "China's semiconductor imports" (2012-2017, inclusive for both ends).