Taiwan Officials Reportedly Want Foxconn to Drop Stake in Chinese Chipmaker Taiwan’s national security officials want to persuade Apple’s supplier Foxconn to unwind an $800 million (roughly Rs. 6,360 crore) investment in Chinese chipmaker Tsinghua Unigroup, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The deal will definitely not go through, the report said, citing a senior Taiwanese government official involved in national security issues. Taiwan, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, has become increasingly cautious about China’s ambition to boost its semiconductor sector. It has proposed new laws to prevent what it says is China stealing its chip technology, amid rising...