A few days ago, the founding team of a domestic start-up was arrested, 14 members of the founding team were arrested, and it is reported that the suspected patent infringement is wifi6 chip, which undoubtedly effectively protects its own rights and interests for technology giants, but also reminds of the risk of leakage of internal secrets.
It is reported that the wifi6 chip is an important core technology of the technology giant, and the number of patents it has obtained is second only to Qualcomm, and the difference in the number of patents between the two is less than 1 percentage point, which shows the importance of this technology to the technology giant.
On the basis of wifi6, domestic technology giants have developed wifi7 technology, and are far ahead of Qualcomm in terms of wifi7 technology patents, which is of greater significance to technology giants, wifi7 is of greater significance, especially when mobile communication technology develops to a new stage, wifi7 plus 5G technology and other leading advantages will ensure that China maintains a competitive advantage in mobile communication technology.
It is reported that the founder of the start-up is a former executive of the tech giant, who founded the start-up after leaving the company, and then poached the employees of the tech giant with generous treatment, and asked these employees to take photos and photocopies to steal secrets when they worked at the tech giant.
In fact, the technology giant has found the clue at the beginning of this year, so in Shanghai to the ** report, and at the same time applied to freeze the start-up's nearly 100 million yuan of assets, after more than half a year of investigation, now the dust has settled, only to the public, confirmed that the other party did steal the business secrets of the technology giant by illegal means.
According to an in-depth understanding, it was found that the founder of the start-up had worked in Qualcomm in the United States, and after the establishment of the company, he quickly received multiple investments and strong financial strength, which can be seen from its frozen assets of nearly 100 million yuan.
However, it is not easy to develop chip technology after all, many domestic chip companies have proved this, and it took several years for technology giants to develop mobile phone baseband chips, and then it took nearly 10 years to develop mobile phone processorsApple has a first-class chip development team, but it has repeatedly suffered setbacks in the development of baseband chips, and it is still difficult to make progress after the acquisition of Intel's baseband chip business.
It is estimated that this start-up also found out that chip research and development was too difficult after its establishment, and tried to take shortcuts, not only poaching employees of technology giants, but also trying to steal technical secrets, but in the end it lifted a stone to shoot itself in the foot, and the relevant personnel fell into the legal net after the incident.
This also reminds the technology giants that in today's increasingly fierce global technology competition, the competition of technology is not only a competition in the open market, but also many secret methods, especially the internal employees from whom the technical secrets were stolen this time, which really confirms the truth that it is difficult to prevent thieves day and night.
The founder of the technology giant once said that it is often his own people who are stuck in the neck, and now he has been confirmed in himself, and he believes that after this incident, the management of core technology secrets will be further strengthened, and those traitors who are for their own interests have finally paid the due price, there is no free lunch to eat in the world, and it is not feasible to try to take shortcuts.