Former Asmi employees were accused of stealing data from the US and Dutch investigatio

(Washington / Amsterdam / Feld Hoffen Comprehensive News) The Dutch Optical Machine Giant ASML (ASML) had previously accused a former employee in China stealing company technology.Anonymous insiders revealed that the United States and the Netherlands are investigating whether the former employee has contacted the Chinese government.

According to Bloomberg News Saturday (February 25), people familiar with the matter said that the former employee had been identified as a potential connection with a Chinese state -owned entity and stole the data of Asmore for the entity.The state's own entity has been accused of theft of intellectual property rights.

Another person familiar with the matter said that after the investigation, Aesmi failed to find the direct connection between the former employee and the Chinese government.US government officials are also investigating the matter.

Asley disclosed the patent data theft related to former Chinese employees in the annual report on February 15th, and said that the internal survey results show that the incident does not have a significant impact on the company's business, but it may violate the export of China to China.The company has notified the US and the Netherlands officials.

The Netherlands has reportedly reached an agreement with the United States in January this year to restrict the manufacture machine exporting advanced chips (Chinese chips) to China. Asmore will also be banned from selling extremely ultraviolet light machines to China.

Bloomberg previously reported that anonymous people revealed that the stolen data comes from a product information repository used internally. In this system, there are detailed information that can produce the most advanced chip machine.

This is the second data disclosed by Asmore in less than a year.In the 2021 annual report released by Acemai in February last year, Oriental Jingyuan Company and related XTAL companies promoted products that may infringe on Acemai intellectual property rights in China.The two companies were founded by Asto's former employee Zongchang Yu. Asmore's lawyer sued Yu Zongqiang in 2018, saying that he established the two companies to transfer Acemai technology to China.

Yu Zongqiang resigned from Asmore in 2012 and established XTAL at the office park near San Jose International Airport in the United States in January 2014.A month later, he founded the Oriental Crystal Source in an industrial area funded by a government in Beijing.XTAL mainly designed and manufactured semiconductor equipment and provides consulting services for the industry, while Dongfang Jingyuan focuses on the management of integrated circuits.