Overseas media said that China's Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co., Ltd. stated on the 10th that it entered a not guilty plea to the court in response to the charges it received in September 2018 in the Northern District Court of California, the United States. The United States previously accused Jinhua of stealing trade secrets.
According to Reuters reported on November 10, the U.S. Department of Justice announced in November 2018 that it would file charges against China's Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit and Taiwan's UMC Electronics , alleging that they conspired to steal the U.S. semiconductor company Micron intellectual property.
In October, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that it had included Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co., Ltd. on the "Entity List" that restricts the export of U.S. products, software and technology.
Fujian Jinhua stated on its official website that it has hired a professional agency to assist it in legal affairs, lobbying, and public relations work in the United States, and they are working together to remove Jinhua from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s export control entity list.
According to Bloomberg reports, both Fujian Jinhua and Taiwan UMC have denied the US accusations.
Taiwan Juheng.com believes that the United States filed the lawsuit to adopt a new strategy to attack mainland China's ability to mass-produce chips.
Bloomberg reported that this is the first case of the US Department of Justice’s “China Project” to crack down on so-called industrial espionage. The U.S. government hopes to prevent Jinhua from exporting dynamic random access memory (DRAM) through civil litigation.
reported that from the perspective of criminal proceedings, prosecutors can require Jinhua and UMC to give up the income gained from suspected theft of technology and ban the use of Micron technology for 5 years. But California attorney Ashok Ramani points out that this would only happen after a conviction or as part of a defense, a process that can take a long time.
Data map: Technical staff of Fujian Jinhua Memory Integrated Circuit Production Line Project are debugging the "Four Remote" equipment of the low-voltage side 20 kV outgoing smart substation.
