Former Samsung Execs Arrested For Using Stolen Tech To Build Chip Factory In China (tomshardware.com) 18
South Korean police have arrested two former Samsung executives for allegedly leaking $3.2 billion worth of Samsung secrets to China to aid in building 20nm DRAM chips. Tom's Hardware reports: The authorities reported that one of the arrested suspects, 66-year-old Mr. Choi, set up a joint venture building chips in China alongside some local officials and served as its CEO. He was allegedly assisted by a plant designer, Mr. Oh, in this venture, while he also attempted to recruit other South Korean experts to work for him. However, Choi's arrest comes after being suspected of leaking Samsung memory technologies to build 20nm DRAM chips at the Chinese factory, Chengdu Gaozhen.
Samsung is one of the leading memory manufacturers, working with other major companies like Nvidia to produce VRAM while offering its own storage and memory solutions. The police said Choi's move "weakened the nation's competitiveness when the countries are in a global chip war." With the capture of the company's head, the authorities claim that this will stop the operation of the Chinese venture. However, investigators are still looking into the case to determine if other cases of industrial espionage will spring up from this case.
Samsung is one of the leading memory manufacturers, working with other major companies like Nvidia to produce VRAM while offering its own storage and memory solutions. The police said Choi's move "weakened the nation's competitiveness when the countries are in a global chip war." With the capture of the company's head, the authorities claim that this will stop the operation of the Chinese venture. However, investigators are still looking into the case to determine if other cases of industrial espionage will spring up from this case.
Re:China seems to be fending for its people (Score:4, Insightful)
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Lie. Cheat. Steal.
It is only shameful if you fail.
Winning is all that matters.
An amoral society.
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The Chinese proverb you are looking for is:
The conflict with Chinese was baked in from the on-set: their culture has too many similarities to the Western one.
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"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason. "
"History is written by the winners."
"Fake it til you make it"
While the US has these ideas too, I think it's still different roughly as outlined here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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Oh bother.
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Have you forgotten about the capacitor plaque of the early 2000's?
20nm? What is that, revolutionary 16MBit chips? (Score:2)
Or even less?
Secrets? Don't make me laugh! (Score:1)
Expertise - yes. You need a lot of that to build your own doo-daddle widget, but plans and designs - no Those documents leave out more info than they give you. Any software or hardware engineer worth their salt can do a better job by tearing down of an existing bit of kit to work out most of the information they need to design their own stuff.
If you don't believe me just
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Crikey mate, the only way I can think of is to poach someone with expertise. And the knowhow in their brains isn't secret.
Oh wait a mo - thats what they did.
What is the value of a secret? (Score:3)
I'm trying to understand how Samsung came up with a value of $3.2 Billion for its secrets. ... or just a number it pulled out of a hat?
Is this the total value of the company, its factories, its researchers?