Samsung engineer accused of giving handwritten 10nm DRAM data to CXMT China

> As a result of this, CXMT has emerged as China’s most advanced DRAM producer over the past several years, beginning volume shipments of 17nm DRAM in 2022 and moving into 10nm-class production in 2023, a transition that surprised many, given the technical difficulty of scaling DRAM without access to leading-edge lithography tools.

Many of China’s surprising advances are like this. I’ve seen people claim that industrial espionage and IP theft don’t drive China’s economy as much any more, but that’s clearly not true.

great. hopefully the oligopoly will break and ram prices will normalise.