UMC pleads guilty to trade secret theft in U.S.

United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC), Taiwan's second-largest contract chipmaker, has admitted to stealing trade secrets from the American semiconductor company Micron Technology, in a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

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