>TSMC has fired several employees over suspected trade secret leaks of 2nm process development and production data, has initiated legal proceedings against them, and Taiwan authorities are investigating as a matter of national security, Nikkei reports, saying they were fired specifically for attempting to obtain the sensitive information, which TSMC caught during routine monitoring.

https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/tsmc-fires-workers-for-breaching-data-rules-on-cutting-edge-chip-tech

I wonder who is behind this? China? Intel? Jensen? Lisa?

Oh the fired employees aren't free btw, they are being detained as leaking TSMC data is a national security breach.

Mossad

>>106157866 (OP)
Its TEL engineers. Tokyo electron. Current chair of Rapidus was CEO of TEL. Speak volume about the viability of IBM's 2nm process that Rapidus is using.

>>106157866 (OP)
China just hires them after they retire or blackmail them. It’ll probably get blamed on them though

90% of corporate espionage always seems to lead to israelis
shit's how they illegally built up an A-bomb arsenal

>>106157884
What a load of BS projectionism.

S00S0

>>106157919
I’m not saying they wouldn’t do it, but they’re so firmly ensconced that I doubt they need to use crude methods like having some dude try to copy off a secure server like no one’s going to notice

>>106157866 (OP)
amd and nvidia have no reason to steal TSMC secrets.
they're fabless.

obviously another chink fab competitor

>>106157957
>>106157946

>https://www.storm.mg/article/11057922
From Taiwan news.

>不是中國!台積電2奈米技術竟流向「這國家」3內鬼火速遭羈押
>It's not China! TSMC's 2nm technology went to "this country," and three insiders were quickly detained.
Its Japan, Tokyo Electron specifically, to help their domestic 2nm fab, Rapidus.

>>106157976
>>106157883
This anon knows

>>106157866 (OP)
As as a /leftypol/dot/org user, I I do not believe in "private ownership" especially when it comes to knowledge. Hording knowledge only to yourself is a very Jewish, capitalist thing to do. All knowledge should be free, and everyone should own everything, equally, together because goods and knowledge are a fundamental human right.

>>106157883
That's not very likely. TEL doesn't make chips, they make chip-making machines. They already get a better look at secrets than most of TSMC's own employees. All corporate espionage in Taiwan leads back to China.

>>106158209
The elites understand all that hence why they use libgen to torrent all the books under the sun to train their AI free of charge.

>>106158245
Naaaaaaaaah, gooks are a 5 yrs or more out from N2 class GAA ala the IBM development base which was originally intended to be shared by the dead Common Platform Alliance. Its Japan. They're aggressively pushing bleeding edge production capability, making public claims towards investors, and they have literally no background that would lend them to jumping right in to the most competitive market on earth. They're stealing IP. Its Japan.

>>106158266
That doesn't really have anything to do with what I said. TEL is no longer competing with Intel because Intel no longer makes transistors. When it comes to whether they can make GAAs or not their primary competitors are Applied Materials and Lam Research, both American. If they wanted to steal secrets from those companies but not directly from them it would behoove them to do so in a foundry located in the USA or Singapore where they won't literally get tortured if they get caught. Furthermore, the article clearly says that TSMC fired "employees," anyone employed by TEL but working at a TSCM foundry would be a "contractor." You don't know what you're talking about.

>>106158390
Don't know what to tell you, but the whispers in the air is that it was TEL connected people who got caught. They're still detained.

>>106157879
/thread
jewtel wants the tsmc tech so they can produce shit out of Taiwan

>>106158424
More Taiwan sources pointing the finger at TEL/Rapidus.

https://udn.com/news/story/124400/8920884

>TSMC's 2-nanometer process technology leaked, the senior procuratorate searched Japanese businessmen and 3 engineers were approved

>United Daily News reporter Zhang Hongye/Taipei Instant Report, August 5, 2:14 PM: Suspected technology leaks have surfaced within TSMC. Sources familiar with the matter indicate that some former employees illegally obtained key 2nm chip manufacturing technology while employed. The individuals involved have been dismissed. The Taiwan High Prosecutors Office stated that prosecutors summoned and arrested three engineers involved in the case from July 25 to 28. Following the interrogation, they filed a request for detention and incommunicado with the Intellectual Property and Commercial Courts, which was granted.

>It is understood that prosecutors conducted a search of a company called Tokyo Electron, which has offices in the Hsinchu Science Park. TSMC's 2nm process is difficult to develop and requires extremely high investment costs. Currently, only a handful of companies worldwide, including TSMC, Samsung, Intel, and Japan's Rapidus, are still pursuing research and development. TSMC expects to begin mass production of 2nm chips by the end of this year.

>>106157866 (OP)
America, China

But realistically, China. Taiwan has more leaks than a sieve.

>>106158501
I know, you know, the industry knows.

>>106157866 (OP)
Considering there are tons of Chinese employees, they would be the primary suspects

>>106158501
>KMT mouthpiece
>blames Japan
color me surprised

>>106157866 (OP)
If it would be China, they would say that it is China.
So it is either the US or Japan.

You think they would miss out on a chance to blame China? LMAO.

>>106157976
Damn that title is peak clickbait

>>106158501
>one globohomo vassal backstabs and steals from another globohomo vassal
it would be news if that wouldn't be happening

>>106157866 (OP)
Hoping it's Intel so they can use that as leverage against buying 49% of Intel that Trump is insisting they do.

>>106157866 (OP)
>during routine monitoring
What is routine monitoring?

>>106157866 (OP)
>2nm
Why are investors and gamers so gullible? We're still stuck on 12nm process nodes. 2nm isn't physically possible with our understanding of physics. Oh, but right, "reee intel 12nm++++++++++. tsmc numba wan."

>>106160783
Every TSMC employee is monitored for situations like this by default

>>106157866 (OP)
"nm" is false and fraudulent term.
they need to use fortnite benchmark.

>>106161101
What are you on about retard
Tsmc went from 13 to 25 to 50 to 150 within the last decade and next year they're hitting 330 mil transistors per mm2

>>106161101
>We're still stuck on 12nm process nodes.
I dunno man, maybe you're right but the nodes sure as shit are improving. Like a "8nm" 3090 gets absolutely raped and destroyed by a "5nm" 4090.

>>106157866 (OP)
It was ne, I thought it was cool so I asked them about it, they got all red and told me (Im a girl btw)

>>106161101
single atom transistors are like 5 years away. How dumb are you.

>>106158209
Fuck off back to your containment site faggot commie

>>106164252
Apparently such moron levels can be achieved, case in point >>106161582
>nigger babble about the "last decade"
>thinks entire process nodes get scrapped and reinvented each year
>trust me bro, it's a nm smaller this time, just like last year
>looks in side
>gate pitch is the exact same 12nm-14nm

I understand it would only serve to strengthen the US.
-but I ask you:

Why shouldn't 2nm tech be shared globally? Why does there have to be a hegemony at all? What does humanity gain from it? How do we as a species gain from producing waste technology on older processes in the name of the "market"?
These men should be freed, those who detained, held them, questioned them, called for their arrest should be slaughtered for crimes against humanity. It's the only ethical outcome to this situation.

>>106169075
Why would you share something so easily that you've spent many years researching and a lot of money on?

So far, most fingers point to Japan, they are especially suspicious because of their 2nm announcement previously
>China
They are stuck in DUV, TSMC tech are mostly in EUV, it will be useless to them at the moment
>Intel
Trump has forced them to share their tech with Intel before, so this is not needed
>Jensen? Lisa?
They are fabless

>>106170445
Why would you willingly choose death over sharing?
Do you hate not only humanity but yourself that much? If so, why seek to enrich yourself if nihilism is the goal?

>>106166940
>I get to say what a process node is despite never even seeing the machinery or the silicon up close
Off yourself
All that matters is the density
You don't get to say hurr their da sayme if shit is constantly getting denser

>>106172809
>>I get to say what a process node is despite never even seeing the machinery or the silicon up close
That's what you're doing, you nigger ape.
I told you we're still stuck at a gatepitch of 12nm. On the other hand, you who has never seen the process node machinery (what kind of standard is this?) is desperately clinging onto the idea we're soon approaching the atomic level, mostly likely because your entire existence is dependent on "hurrdurr 12nm+++++" shitposts.

>Off yourself
You first

>All that matters is the density
12-14nm^2 is the density. I'm sorry you're that much of a pavement nigger you cannot comprehend 2D isn't the same as 3D.

>>106173654
>cannot comprehend 2D isn't the same as 3D.
bonus points for thinking the average distance is such that quantum tunneling would wreak everything.

"BUT WONT SOMEBODY PLS THINK OF CHANGS FACTORY AND CHANGS TRUTH"

Multiculturalism/Multiracialism does work.

>>106175672
give me 408 examples across 60 decades