An executive who worked at Samsung was accused of “clone” the whole factory manufacturer in China after stealing the company’s documents and technology.

Called in process just from “Mr. A”A 65-year-old man has been arrested and will be tried by the district courts of Suwon, in South Korea. Along with him were arrested five employees of the Chinese company and a supplier of Samsung itself, who is accused of participating in the scheme by facilitating the delivery of documents.

Mister. A was the vice president of another electronics brand, SC Hynix, and was considered a reputable name in the local industry. According to the report, Samsung would announce $230 million loss for leaking data and trade secrets.

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According to the newspaper Business Korea, Mister. And he worked in the Chinese division of Samsung from 2018 to 2019. There, he collected the brand’s industry secrets over several months, including complete plans for the semiconductor manufacturing plant with layout details, drawings, and safety descriptions for technologies that allow the introduction of a production unit of processors and NAND Flash This AMD V 30 nanometers.

Already outside Samsung, the defendants tried to build a semiconductor manufacturing plant in the area of ​​the city. Xi’an, in China, less than 2 kilometers from where he used to work. The stolen schematics even included ways to improve the “cleanliness” of the space and ensure the best quality of the manufactured components, since the processes are quite expensive and complex.

executive power to received an investment of 358 million US dollars a Chinese company to build a research and development center, as well as prototype future chips and hire 200 people at the facility, including former employees where he previously worked. However, the work did not go to the end: an alliance with a Taiwanese company, whose name was not disclosed, did not work out, and plans to copy the entire Samsung plant were discovered.

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Source: Business Korea.

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