A Micron buddy told me about this when the story broke, and I was sure someone would pick it up here. So though it's a bit late, I hope you enjoy it.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday unveiled an indictment against two companies based in China and Taiwan and three individuals, saying they conspired to steal trade secrets from U.S. semiconductor company Micron Technology Inc relating to its research and development of memory storage devices.
The charges against Taiwan-based United Microelectronics Corp, China state-owned Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co Ltd and three individuals who once worked for a unit of Micron mark the fourth case brought by the Justice Department since September as part of a broader crackdown against alleged Chinese espionage on U.S. companies.
Increasing the scary factor was that one guy was a Director at Micron. So he probably had access to far more intel than the average molerat.
Reuters and Engadget, among others.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by snufu on Friday November 16 2018, @11:26PM (2 children)
Crocodile tears. Micron and the cabal of DRAM manufacturers have been protecting an oligopoly on supply, refusing to expand capacity and gouging consumers for years, reaping windfall profits, waiting for the chinese manufacturers to come online. Now that day is here and they know the party is over and rather than compete they are going to litigate. Hard to root for the home team under these circumstances.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 17 2018, @01:21AM (1 child)
I agree. Don't know why your comment is currently marked as trolling. All anyone has to do is google "dram price fixing" and there it is in black 'n white.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 17 2018, @06:07AM
Stop spreading fake news.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday November 17 2018, @04:07AM (2 children)
Fell out of bed minutes ago. Crawled to bathroom, coffeepot, and desk - in that order. Sipping coffee, trying to focus on the screen. Molerat? WTF's a molerat? Tried to twist and massage that into something meaningful, and temporarily gave up. I'm finally almost awake. OH YEAH! A mole - rat! Thanks for my early-morning puzzle. Need moar coffee . . .
(Score: 2) by black6host on Saturday November 17 2018, @05:48AM (1 child)
Well, it took me a pot of coffee and more than a few shots of scotch to figure out what the hell you were talking about! Now, I can feel your pain :)
(Score: 1) by DECbot on Saturday November 17 2018, @03:36PM
A crowbar to the head works faster, but self medication is a bitch.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 17 2018, @06:25PM
I guess the dude was not on the board of directors, but a position under VP, a third line manager or so.