{"id":16236,"date":"2025-11-27T07:26:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T05:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/intel-denies-tsmc-allegations-that-executive-leaked-trade-secrets\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:31:29","slug":"intel-denies-tsmc-allegations-that-executive-leaked-trade-secrets","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/intel-denies-tsmc-allegations-that-executive-leaked-trade-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel denies TSMC allegations that executive leaked trade secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;Based on everything we know, we have no reason to believe there is any merit to the allegations involving Lo,&#8221; Intel said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Lo did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Intel said the company maintains rigorous policies and controls that strictly prohibit the use or transfer of any third-party confidential information or intellectual property.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;We take these commitments seriously,&#8221; Intel said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The United States chipmaker said it has welcomed back Lo and that he is widely respected across the semiconductor industry for his integrity, leadership and technical expertise. &#8220;Talent movement across companies is a common and healthy part of our industry, and this situation is no different,&#8221; the company added. TSMC said on Tuesday it had filed a lawsuit in Taiwan&#8217;s Intellectual Property and Commercial Court against Lo, its former senior vice president.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Lo, who helped drive TSMC&#8217;s mass production of cutting edge 5-nanometre, 3-nm and 2-nm chips, joined Intel in October after retiring from TSMC following a 21-year-long career there. Before joining TSMC in 2004, Lo worked at Intel for 18 years. TSMC had said in a statement that &#8220;there is a high probability that Lo uses, leaks, discloses or transfers TSMC&#8217;s trade secrets and confidential information to Intel, thus making legal actions necessary Taiwan&#8217;s economy ministry said this week that it will cooperate to determine whether the case involves the infringement of core technologies or violations of Taiwan&#8217;s National Security Act.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16237,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-16236","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Intel on Thursday denied allegations by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing that one of its executives, Wei-Jen Lo, who formerly worked at the Taiwanese chipmaker, had leaked trade secrets","published_date":"2025-11-27 00:00:00","news_description":"Intel on Thursday denied allegations by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing that one of its executives, Wei-Jen Lo, who formerly worked at the Taiwanese chipmaker, had leaked trade secrets","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20133,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16236\/revisions\/20133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=16236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}