CNBC: Chinese chipmakers' overseas-engineer hiring collides with Taiwan and Korea trade-secret laws

Chinese firms including CXMT are offering high salaries, stock, housing and family support to poach engineers from Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron and TSMC, forcing Asian governments to tighten trade-secret enforcement. A former Samsung engineer who moved to CXMT was sentenced in October 2026 to five years in prison for leaking advanced DRAM technology; CXMT is on pace to capture ~10% of global DRAM revenue by Q2 2026.