Last week, South Korean prosecutors data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/ten-former-samsung-employees-arrested-for-industrial-espionage-charges-for-giving-china-chipmaker-10nm-tech-executives-and-researchers-allegedly-leaked-dram-technology-to-china-based-cxmt-resulting-in-trillions-of-losses-in-korean-won” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/ten-former-samsung-employees-arrested-for-industrial-espionage-charges-for-giving-china-chipmaker-10nm-tech-executives-and-researchers-allegedly-leaked-dram-technology-to-china-based-cxmt-resulting-in-trillions-of-losses-in-korean-won”>indicted multiple individuals in a case alleging that a former Samsung engineer leaked advanced DRAM manufacturing process data to China’s ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), shedding light on how leaked trade secrets may have accelerated China’s push into 10nm-class memory. Now, it has come to light (via data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://x.com/SemiAnalysis_/status/2005458750296256654?s=20″ target=”_blank” data-url=”https://x.com/SemiAnalysis_/status/2005458750296256654?s=20″ referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>SemiAnalysis) that the engineers in question allegedly took note of detailed critical manufacturing steps in handwritten notes taken over five years.
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