News Former Samsung execs arrested for allegedly using stolen memory tech to build chip factory in China — suspects leaked $3.2B worth of Samsung secrets

[Admin]

A former Samsung executive set up a factory in China and used stolen Samsung memory technology to make competing chips.

Former Samsung execs arrested for allegedly using stolen memory tech to build chip factory in China — suspects leaked $3.2B worth of Samsung secrets : Read more

 

[cp0x]

China will do whatever it takes to obtain (read: steal) the technologies necessary to lead in the semiconductor manufacturing space. This has been coming for years, and we've already seen how China operates in order to achieve any possible advantage.
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/09/5995...ise-then-a-chinese-customer-stole-its-technol

 

[prtskg]

I have gotten used to IP theft news from China.

 

[Pei-chen]

That’s how Samsung started with the Japanese wasn’t it?

 

[The Historical Fidelity]

That’s how Samsung started with the Japanese wasn’t it?

So, in the beginning, America was the nation with the chip making prowess. Then due to a government decree in Japan, a conglomerate of Japanese companies (Nikon, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, etc.) were given state funding and support with intent to dominate the memory market that eventually resulted in world markets being flooded with memory chips that were priced significantly below any other supplier could offer, resulting in many countries levying dumping charges on Japan to the International Trade Commission which then issued penalty duties on all Japanese sourced memory chips. The Japanese chip industry never really recovered from this, allowing newcomers in South Korea and Taiwan to fill their shoes.