Huawei boss is suspected of stealing US trade secrets

Tram Ho

A CEO of Huawei is said to steal a trade secret from CNEX – the microchip company supported by Dell and Microsoft.

The Federal Court in Texas (USA) recently filed a lawsuit against one of the Huawei executives in suspicion of stealing CNEX’s trade secret. This is a chip company based in San Jose, California (USA) and supported by two tech giants, Dell and Microsoft.

The lawsuit was first filed in November last year and more details are available, the new record being updated later this month. Expected trial will take place on June 3 next.

According to CNBC , CNEX accused Eric Xu, Huawei’s rotating chairman, of directing an employee to impersonate the company’s potential customer to obtain confidential trade documents. This person then sent them to Huawei’s chip research and development department.

The lawsuit between CNEX and Huawei involves a new solid-state drive controller board.

The lawsuit between CNEX and Huawei involves a new solid-state drive controller board.

Meanwhile, Reuters sources said CNEX also found that Huawei stole the technology secret related to the solid-state drive controller via underground connections with Xiamen University (China). Bo Mao, a professor at the university, asked for one of CNEX’s new circuit boards to serve the research project. Mao then had to sign the undisclosed commitment and strictly protect the circuit board information. However, for unknown reasons, the circuit board and related information are in the hands of Huawei, according to CNEX.

However, Yiren Huang, one of CNEX’s founders, was sued by Huawei for the same reason in 2017. China’s smartphone company accused Huang and former Huawei employee of stealing trade secrets. and use them to establish CNEX. Huawei must therefore have patent rights that CNEX has registered.

At that time, American microchip company said that Huawei took advantage of lawsuits and investigation methods to gain more access to its technology documents. Last week, a federal court in California (USA) denied Huawei’s claim of ownership with patents registered by CNEX. However, Huawei still has a claim that Huang has improperly recruited Huawei’s former colleagues to work with the new company CNEX.

The lawsuit took place in the context of Huawei being banned from buying parts and components from the US company, without the approval of the US government. The list of big companies stopped cooperating with Chinese smartphone companies is getting more and more extended like Google, ARM, Intel, Qualcomm, Xilinx, Toshiba ….

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Source : vnexpress