However, in 2019, Mr Black says he was summoned to a meeting in Beijing, where he was asked to work directly for China Reform, and oversee the wholesale transfer of Imagination’s technology and expertise to China.<\/p>\n
“I think [the China Reform representative] said specifically ‘from the heads of the British engineers to the Chinese engineers, then lay off the British engineers and you’ll make a lot of money’,” says Mr Black.<\/p>\n
He refused, but he says that several months later, China Reform tried to install four new directors “with no understanding of semiconductors” directly onto the board of Imagination Technologies.<\/p>\n
“The only attributes they appeared to have was a relationship with China Reform,” he adds.<\/p>\n
Convinced that Imagination’s technology had the capacity to be used for military purposes, Mr Black began reaching out to contacts in the UK government.<\/p>\n
He says he was given a sympathetic hearing, but was told this was a private industry matter, and there was not much anyone could do.<\/p>\n
Fearful about the possible transfer of military-grade technology, Mr Black resigned. At that point, he says, the UK government started to take an interest, and China Reform halted its attempt to install new directors.<\/p>\n
Mr Black withdrew his resignation but was fired three days later. He was later found by an employment tribunal to have been unfairly dismissed.<\/p>\n
After he left the company, Imagination’s homegrown technology was transferred to China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, in 2019, Mr Black says he was summoned to a meeting in Beijing, where he was asked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-267390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}