The extent of Rapidus’ involvement is still unclear.
China had built its entire country from a peasant-tiddled backwater shithole to the manufacturing powerhouse of the world, from two simple steps:
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Steal as much of the Westerners’ intellectual property as one is capable of. Fuck you and your copyright laws, but if you steal China’s IP ideas, that’s unacceptable.
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Exploit the peasants like slave labor and try your best to pay them as such.
This isn’t China though, it’s a Japan-based startup. At least according to the article
To be fair that’s what America did to England.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater
The US used to only recognize copyright of US writers. Foreign books were printed without any payments. Charles Dickens didn’t get any money from American publishers who printed his books.
https://www.copyright.gov/history/lore/pdfs/201201 CLore_January2012.pdf
About time the world does the same to the US.
Better than playing the tariff game.Whoa, TIL. Thanks for that interesting history lesson!
Out of all things you accuse China. Racist guy.
China isn’t a race.
Spare me your woke BS.
Chinese here. He’s not wrong. Should we just pretend it didn’t happen?
That has nothing to do with topic at hand.
True, it was japan not China. Doesn’t make him racist though, just mistaken.
I’m referring to their government and socio-economics, you silly racist fuck.
Off topic excuse.
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Hmm.
This sucks for TSMC, but I have a hard time being upset that humanity’s ability to make better processors will expand, especially given the vulnerability of Taiwan. But I don’t really know enough to have a firm position on this.
Rapidus is so getting sued
As someone who has worked under NDAs for trade secrets, this is a real stab in the back to fellow employees. As an enemy of capitalism, I don’t feel bad for the corporation. Sucks for the people who were excited about their engineering achievements, though.
I’m sure you are correct and there are plenty of folks who would feel this way. From my perspective, post academia-corpo transition, I would love to share developments and innovations more widely and see others use and build on them too. But hands are tied in the private sector.
The perpetrators reportedly shared ‘hundreds of process integration technical photos’ with the Japanese company [Rapidus], though their exact relationship is unknown and it is unclear whether the chipmaker asked for the said assets.
I look forward to follow up reporting on this part.
“For now, it is hard to evaluate what exactly happened or assess the possible damage to TSMC and/or benefit to Rapidus (if any).”
Rumors only .
Add: Don’t get the down votes, the above-mentioned is literally paraphrasing from the article. This whole post is based on rumours & speculation only.
What rumours? They know for a fact the information sharing happened, they just don’t get know what the fallout from it will be
They dont even know what info and what was shared.
"Keep in mind that the reports about employees stealing TSMC’s 2nm-related trade secrets are vague (to put it mildly), and should be taken with grain of salt. While the initial reports said that up to six people were involved in the wrongdoing, the new report claims that there were ‘around’ 10 perpetrators. Also, the initial reports failed to detail what information was stolen from TSMC, and the new report mentions ‘hundreds of process integration technical photos,’ but does not disclose what was on those images.
WE don’t know what info and otherwise was shared, because it’s an ongoing investigation and they’d be idiots to be telling the public everything. That doesn’t make it a ‘rumour’. There’s enough to it that the govt is investigating, which is by definition more than a rumour.
So we only have rumors. The evidence wasnt clear. That’s what I meant. I didn’t downplay the investigation.
also shared were pictures of a testicle.
You mean a small text?
