Looks like this was yet another fake news by the neo-fascist lying Western media to smear China.
I guess Turkey knows how this works as they also experience such consolidated attacks by the Western media.
It is better to take such news with a truck-load of salt if they are originated in Western media and based on some dubious US agency.
Corporates trying to spy on each other is nothing new. Even national companies spy on each other and meet in court. Everybody does that as much as they can. As long as one is not caught, it is OK. I hope China corporation are involved in it, too. There is no fair game in international relations. But, making it look like a national conspiracy is just too low.
In the end, I am happy if Samsung spied on them (if true). Because, Samsung dropped ASML and became a customer for the Chinese company (which is true).
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ASML Was Spied On By Its 'Biggest South Korean Customer', Samsung
By Alexander Maxham
April 16, 2019
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Samsung spied on, and stole software
from ASML. A company that it uses to help mass-produce its chipsets that are used in smartphones, tablets, and just about everything else that the company makes.
Originally, the Dutch press believed that it was the Chinese Government that was spying on ASML. But, ASML's CEO, Peter Wennink denied that it was China, and instead said it was "our biggest [South] Korean customer". Wennink r
efused to say that it was Samsung by name, and instead said that it was their biggest Korean customer a second time. Which basically points to Samsung, seeing as that is the only chip maker (that's big enough) in South Korea that ASML works with.
According to Wennink, this conclusion came from the company hiring an external company, to find out who was behind the espionage and theft of its software. The external company was able to conclude that it was not state espionage, but rather "ordinary" business espionage.
Apparently, the spies are all Chinese former employees who stole the software and created their own company to compete with ASML, Xtal. It is in China and the US.
The spying took place in 2015, and the new company, Xtal was created in 2016. That year, Samsung became a 30-percent shareholder of Xtal, then ASML lost Samsung as a customer for this particular software. The software in question is used to set up chip machines for optimum production of electronic chips. But interestingly enough, Samsung is already a customer of ASML, once again.
It's unclear how things will play out for
Samsung and ASML, now that all of this information is out in the public and people are seeing Samsung's true colors. But the fact that Samsung spied on one of its partners, is not a huge surprise. It actually happens quite often
The fact that ASML came out and rejected the fact that the Chinese government spied on them, is a pretty big deal. In its press release, however, it did not point the finger at Samsung, which may be a bit surprising. However, its CEO, did indeed point it directly at Samsung, and given the fact that Samsung stopped using ASML shortly after the espionage was completed and a competitor opened up in China, it definitely makes this all smell pretty fishy.
ASML has said that once it found out it was a victim of espionage, it acted quickly. It has also stepped up its game to make sure that it does not happen again. While also admitting that corporate espionage is not something that is out of the ordinary.
https://www.androidheadlines.com/2019/04/asml-espionage-samsung-chipsets.html
. People are buying because it is cheap nothing wrong with that.
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