"As many as 3,000 semiconductor engineers, as per Nikkei Asia Review and Taiwan’s Business Weekly, may have left Taiwan for China’s mainland. Nikkei says this figure has been confirmed by the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research and it forms a tenth of Taiwan’s chip research and development workforce."
"China is increasing its recruitment of semiconductor sector talent by offering salaries as much as three times higher as well as other benefits. Taiwan is struggling to compete."