Former SK hynix chip engineer gets 1.5 years in prison for IP theft

A Chinese national was sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined ₩20 million ($14,400) for allegedly stealing semiconductor manufacturing technology from SK hynix, according to a South Korean court ruling. The 36-year-old worked for the chipmaker from 2013 before being hired by Huawei in 2022, where her role initially …

[cornetman]

> .. for alleged IP theft

If it has proven in court, you no longer need to use the term alleged, unless you are trying to make some kind of procedural point. Editorially, do you disagree with the court's findings?

[NoneSuch]

This, and other equally serious reasons, are why China should be isolated by the world until they begin to respect other nations. Let them wither on the vine until the decide to play nice with others.

And before you lambast me, I feel this should be applied to any nation flaunting international law.

[Anonymous Coward]

Its pretty naive to think that only China engages in intellectual property theft. China just sucks at hiding it.

[Sangheili]

It's the worse the worst

Samsung, China, North Korea, Russia, America companies, iran...

But printing of 400 pages a day would to me raise a red flag. What are you printing the Wikipedia site?

We all know china is also far beyond in tech, America not as much but we littraly don't really have many fab plants.

Most are located in Asian countries

[Anonymous Coward]

>But printing of 400 pages a day would to me raise a red flag

That's only about 0.1 bathrooms worth of secret documents

[An_Old_Dog]

Printing Volume

Printing volume*, alone, is not a red flag. Restricted content, coupled with large print volumes, coupled with printing to a printer in a different office building than the one you work in, comprise a red flag warranting investigation.

* The publicly-available system documents on AMD_64 CPUs from Intel, plus errata, were > 1,200 pages when I printed them, ten years ago. The equivalent AMD docs were > 1,100 pages. The equivalent docs for the Sony, et. al. Cell Broadband Architecture were > 800 pages. And the docs for Wireshark neé Ethereal were ... a lot.

[GraXXoR]

Flaunting doesn’t mean what you think it means.

You mean flouting.

[ChrisPv]

So the real story is US companies stealing trade secrets from Korea

But we read it only in the article of the single case of engineer going to Huawei?

If you read whole article, near the end you have the real meat that these cases are common in Korea nowadays, that in other cases beneficiaries are not named, except for “overseas”

[PhilipN]

Re: So the real story is US companies stealing trade secrets from Korea

It is how Uncle Sam kick-started its industrial growth more than a century ago - by emulating (cough cough) machinery and systems from Europe.

[Snowy]

Re: So the real story is US companies stealing trade secrets from Korea

Some have moved to american companies but there is no indication they took secrets with them, or indeed that all people who moved to Chinese companies took secrets with them either.