Late last year, 10 former Samsung employees were indicated in a corporate espionage case in which they were accused of leaking critical chipmaking IP to China's CXMT. Today, a South Korean court has found one of the accused guilty. The court sentenced 56-year-old "Jeon" to seven years in prison on charges of violating the region's Industrial Technology Protection Act. The defendant purportedly stole over 600 detailed steps on DRAM manufacturing, according to Reuters.
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