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American company accused of stealing technology from Samsung, says newspaper

Samsung is investigating a possible leak of confidential information from its semiconductor production line involving Lam Research Korea, a South Korean subsidiary of the American equipment ...

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American company accused of stealing technology from Samsung, says newspaper
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Samsung is investigating a possible leak of confidential information from its semiconductor production line involving Lam Research Korea, a South Korean subsidiary of the American equipment manufacturer. According to the newspaper The Elec, the case involves files with chip manufacturing recipes.

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BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front): Samsung is investigating a possible leak of confidential information from its semiconductor production line involving Lam Research Korea, a South Korean subsidiary of the American equipment manufacturer. According to the newspaper The Elec, the case involves files with chip manufacturing recipes.

This data is considered strategic to control industrial stages and preserve the competitiveness of the semiconductor division, and the documents would have been sent to the company on different occasions, after requests for data access that were considered inappropriate.

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The suspicion is that the material was transferred apart from the operational information that Samsung already allowed sharing with the supplier. The South Korean company’s authorization was restricted to data collected by monitoring servers installed on production lines.

This information could be used to track equipment performance and support maintenance work, but did not include proprietary process revenues.

Manufacturing recipes bring together parameters that guide the operation of equipment during each stage of producing a chip. Among the data are:

In practice, the recipe works as a technical roadmap for the machines, with specific adjustments for each operation carried out on the silicon disk, which serves as the basis for producing the chips. These variables determine how the material will be treated throughout manufacturing, and access to this set of instructions can expose part of the technical knowledge accumulated by the manufacturer

Samsung would have identified the unauthorized transfers in the second half of 2026 and taken the case to its headquarters, treating the episode as a relevant technology leak. To date, however, there is no confirmation that Lam Research Korea has actually used the information in its own manufacturing processes.

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