The US shuts down China's national memory manufacturing company as stolen confidential information from American companies

The Chinese Justice Ministry prohibits exporting American products such as JHICC, as a memory manufacturer in China "Fujian Jinhua Junjie Electrical Train" (JHICC) and its related Taiwanese companies "stealed the trade secret of the American memory company Micron" We added it as an object to the entity list. The United States seems to thoroughly stop the rise of technology by China.

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In 2015, the Chinese government announced that China's manufacturing road map "China production 2025" was launched, and among them the manufacture of its own DRAM chips is a national security priority. As a result, the Chinese government has financed over $ 5 billion (about 560 billion yen) to establish JHICC, a memory manufacturing company in Jinjiang City, an industrial base in the coastal area of ​​China. At that time, JHICC received technology from Taiwan's foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) because it did not have the technology related to memory manufacturing, but according to the American Justice Department, UMC's vice president Stephen Cheng was the American major memory giant He told Mr. Cheng Cheng that was an employee of a subsidiary of Micron.

Merely pulling out is not a problem, Mr. Chenkun who worked for Micron Memory Taiwan at that time recruited colleagues to transfer to UMC, and Micron's 900 secrets including DRAM technology and trade secrets that Micron had, etc. The Department of Justice has certified that it brought the file, and the prosecution authorities estimate the value of the confidential document as "the value of $ 400 million to $ 850 million (about 50 billion yen to 96 billion yen)."

In December 2017 Micron complained that JHICC and UMC had stolen trade secrets in the courts of the state of California, USA but JHICC and UMC opposed Micron at the Fuzhou Intermediate People's Court in China against the reason for patent infringement As a result, in July 2018, two subsidiaries of Micron were provisionally injured in the sale of products.

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In response to this, the US Department of Justice, who is angry with "thief violent", sued three individuals including Mr. Cheng, in addition to JHICC and UMC, and also based on the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) I added JHICC to the entity list. JHICC added to the entity list is subject to the export restrictions of American products required for memory production. Since EAR also applies to transactions in other countries that do not have jurisdiction, there is a limit to not only direct exports from the United States but also all reexport transactions.

In the past, this measure is unprecedented in that the entity list, which has been used to prohibit the export of American products to "economic sanctioned countries" such as Iran, is used for closing Chinese enterprises . Since JHICC is regarded as the central presence of China manufacturing 2025, it seems that there is unusual motivation to suppress the rise of technology of the Chinese to the US government.

It should be noted that, so far is also China, which has carried out the technology spy to the United States for many years, President Obama makes a summit meeting of the informal and Xi Jinping Jintao in June 2013, against technology theft and cyber attack by China After giving warnings, there was a big change such as the hacking of commercial data by China decreased by 90% in a few months after agreeing to strict cyber security policy when the trainee's seat visited the United States in September 2015 It is said that it appeared.

However, when the chief secretary of the Department of State Security took over the initiative on behalf of the People's Liberation Army, who led the hacking from China then, more sophisticated hackers were hired by the government and technology spy activity became active , Cyber ​​Security experts in the United States point out that after 2016 it has switched to a policy to actively steal US intellectual property from jet engine development to biopharmaceuticals and genetically modified plants.