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Samsung engineer sentenced to 7 years in prison for selling chipmaking trade secrets to Chinese chipmaker — ex-employee supplied 10nm DRAM data to CXMT for $2 million

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  1. A Seoul court sentenced a former Samsung employee to seven years in prison for leaking DRAM manufacturing secrets to CXMT.

  2. The court found he disclosed more than 600 production steps and other chipmaking details involving core national technology.

  3. The leak allegedly gave the Chinese memory maker a potential competitive edge and may have caused major losses for Samsung and South Korea.

  4. The case underscores the growing risks of semiconductor espionage and trade secret theft in the chip industry.

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