Date:2023-12-26
According to the micro-news of the Chief Officer of the Economic Crime Investigation Unit of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, recently, under the command and deployment of the Ministry of Public Security and with the strong cooperation of the Jiangsu Police, the Shanghai police successfully cracked a case of infringing on the trade secrets of chip technology, 14 suspects were arrested, 7 servers storing infringing chip technology were seized.
According to the investigation, in February, Zhang and Liu, the former executives of Huawei's Hayes, set up a technology company after leaving their 2021 in order to obtain illegal benefits, induced a number of former R & D personnel to transfer to the company, and instructed these personnel to illegally obtain the technical information of Hayes chip by means of excerpts, screenshots, etc. before leaving the company, copy and used in a certain company designed the same type of chip, in an attempt to make illegal profits.
The identification shows that there are 40 technical points in the infringing chip technology and the secret points of the Right Company's trade secrets, which are more than 90% identical and constitute the substantial same.
On April 19 this year, the Shanghai Police, with the strong cooperation of the Jiangsu Police, launched a concentrated net-collecting operation in both Shanghai and Jiangsu, successfully capturing 14 core members of the company involved in the case, including Zhang, Liu and others, before putting the infringing chip into mass production, it should be investigated and dealt with in time. At present, Zhang, Liu and other four major suspects have been arrested by the police on suspicion of violating commercial secrets, the remaining 10 suspects have been released on bail in accordance with the law.
According to sources familiar with the matter, the infringement company or for Zupai Communications. The case mentioned Zhang should be Zunpai Communications founder and CEO Zhang Kun, and according to its sources, Zhang Kun has been missing for several months.
Previously, Huawei's wholly-owned Shanghai Haise Technology Co. , Ltd. had applied to freeze ZUPO Communications 95 million property, the court review has ruled that the implementation.
Information shows that Zunpai Communications Technology (Nanjing) Co. , Ltd. was established in March of the 2021 and registered in Jiangbei New Area of Nanjing. Shanghai Zunpai Communications Technology Co. , Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of the company, in Beijing, Shenzhen, Suzhou and branches. Zunpai communications focuses on WI-FI chips, mainly Wi-Fi 6 chips, which are used in routers, AP (Access Point) gateways (CABLE MODEDSL, etc.) , mobile phones, tablets and TV terminals, etc. .
The development speed of Zunpai communication is very fast. In May, two months after the establishment of the 2021, an angel round of financing of nearly RMB 100 million was completed by Gao Rong Capital and Jiangbei Jiakang Technology, followed by another year, in May 2022, zunpai has raised hundreds of millions of yuan in Pre-A round of financing, with investors including Xiaomi Group, Hu Shan Capital, Sky Capital and Jia Yu Capital.
On the evening of December 24, the official blog of the Xiaomi Group released a statement saying that a large number of rumors and false reports about a certain chip company related to Xiaomi had been circulating on the internet recently. For these irresponsible and totally inaccurate information, we have completed the collection of evidence and reported to the relevant departments, and make a serious clarification.
Xiaomi said the group's investment arm, hanstar venture capital, had participated in a chip company financing in 2022, in a financial investment that could not have been more normal. The chip company has participated in several rounds of financing, a total of a number of state and local government industrial development funds, as well as more than 20 financial investment institutions.
Xiaomi claims that Xiaomi, as one of the company's many shareholders, was neither the first investor nor the largest investor, let alone the dominant investor in several rounds of financing.
Xiaomi said in a statement that Xiaomi was not involved in the direct management and operation of the chip company, nor did it have any intellectual property or technology co-operation with the company. Xiaomi attaches great importance to intellectual property rights and firmly opposes the theft of trade secrets through illegal means.
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