TAIPEI -- Struggling U.S. chipmaker Globalfoundries has filed lawsuits against bigger rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. in what analysts describe as an attempt to gain political support amid the escalating trade war with China.
Globalfoundries has filed suits in the U.S. and Germany alleging 16 cases of patent infringement and seeking to block imports of TSMC products into those countries. The company said in a statement that it has suffered "significant damages from TSMC based on TSMC's unlawful use of GF's proprietary technology in its tens of billions of dollars of sales."
