[Sianel Ariannol / Adroddiad Cynhwysfawr]Chinese commercial spies were caught again! Applied Materials is suing a Chinese competitor, accusing it of stealing Applied Materials’ most valuable trade secrets over a 14-month period, including organized employee poaching and secret transfers of semiconductor equipment designs.
Bloomberg reported that Mattson Technology, a Silicon Valley supplier of semiconductor wafer processing equipment, has been hired by Beijing Yitang Shenglong Semiconductor Industry Investment Center (E-Town Dragon) in just over a year after it was acquired by Investment Corporation Beijing Yizhuang Province in 2016. 17 top engineers. Applied Materials accused Mattson of poaching and theft of trade secrets.
Applied Materials sued Mattson and employees who recently left in 2022, saying the poached employees provided conclusive evidence of espionage. Applied Materials said in court documents that a senior division manager and researcher who changed jobs knew sensitive information such as Applied Materials’ chip manufacturing technology.
According to a document filed by Applied Materials in March 2022, many of these messages are highly sensitive, technical in nature, and contain trade secrets and information of Applied Materials, which will enable Mattson in its technology and development, to have competitive competition. Advantage.
Canfeng Lai, who recently joined Mattson from Applied Materials, admitted in a statement to the court that he transferred files from the app to his personal email account just to keep a “souvenir” of his achievements. And stated “I have no intention of using or disclosing any confidential application information in Mattson’s new position, and I have never used or disclosed any confidential Applied Materials information outside of Applied Materials.”
Mattson has denied any wrongdoing.
The theft of China’s semiconductor technology has been caught one after another. Previously, Bloomberg also revealed that ASML stated that a former employee in China had stolen the company’s technical data. The part that was revealed was about technical information. , but not hardware Authorities in the Netherlands and the United States have been informed of the leak over the past few months by a male employee in the Chinese unit who stole money.
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