Samsung GALAXY X. A controversial case of industrial espionage, with employees detained by the authorities for investigations, shakes the IT world in South Korea, and poses very big problems for those at Samsung. Prosecutors in South Korea have indicted 9 people for allegedly selling industrial secrets regarding the technology used to create the foldable screen in the Samsung GALAXY X, the Chinese being the ones who paid to find out how the Koreans will produce the new components.
Samsung GALAXY X. A company called Toptec has 9 employees charged by South Korean prosecutors, the CEO along with 8 other employees selling Samsung secrets to companies in China. Toptec supplies equipment for the manufacture of screens for mobile phones, and allegedly had access to documents describing how the Samsung GALAXY X screen was to be produced, its employees selling this information through a ghost company for 13.85 million dollars to companies in China.
Samsung GALAXY X. UNREAL CASE OF SPYING, EMPLOYEES DETENTED
Samsung GALAXY X. Of course, Toptec denied the accusations, but probably the prosecutors were notified by Samsung about this problem, and probably those there found out that their documents reached other companies. The biggest problem is that hundreds of millions of dollars, or maybe even billions, plus years of work lost to have an advantage with the Samsung GALAXY X in front of the competitors went "down the drain" because of some Koreans who sold all for $14 million.
South Korean prosecutors on Thursday said they have indicted nine people on suspicion of leaking Samsung Electronics Co Ltd flexible display technology to a Chinese company. The Suwon District Prosecutors' Office has charged the chief executive and eight employees of supplier Toptec Co Ltd for selling information earlier this year about Samsung's organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels. The group is accused of forming a separate shell company that received information on the use of equipment and drawings of panels obtained from Samsung subsidiary Samsung Display, and which sold some of the documents in China for 15.5 billion won ($13.85 million).
Samsung GALAXY X. The truth is that the announcements of Chinese companies that prepare foldable phones so quickly after Samsung struggled for years with such devices have started to be quite curious. Now Samsung probably can't do much to ensure the Samsung GALAXY X the technological advantage it hopes for, but a few years ago it stole the technology from TSMC to produce 14nm processors, so it's not exactly "clean" .
