China-based HiSilicon Technologies and Spreadtrum Communications have been aggressively hiring engineering talent at their local offices in Taiwan, according to industry sources.

Both HiSilicon and Spreadtrum already have R&D teams in Taiwan, said the sources.

Located in Hsinchu, HiSilicon's Taiwan office has a team of almost 500 R&D engineers engaged in the development of handset chip solutions, the sources indicated.

Spreadtrum has offices in Taipei and Hsinchu, and an R&D workforce of more than 100 employees focusing on the development of related hardware and software for handset solutions, the sources disclosed.

Previous reports quoted industry sources as noting that engineers and high-ranking staff from major Taiwan-based IC design houses including Novatek Microelectronics and Himax Technologies, as well as second-tier players such as FocalTech Systems, ILi Technology (Ilitek) and Raydium Semiconductor, are all being targeted by China's IC design companies, which are looking to shorten their learning curve and improve their product competitiveness.

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