Tokyo police will probe a suspected leak of Toshiba
Corp technology to a South Korean company that relates to the top
Japanese chipmaker's flagship memory chips, the Yomiuri newspaper
reported on Thursday.
The paper also said police had obtained a warrant for the arrest of a
former engineer at a Toshiba-affiliated chipmaker who was suspected of
improperly providing technical data to SK Hynix Inc.
A Toshiba spokesman said the company could not comment on the matter
while it is the subject of a police investigation. Tokyo police
declined to comment.
A Hynix spokesman said the company was checking the report and had no further comment.
This would mark Japan's first criminal investigation into a leak of
advanced technology from the IT sector overseas, the paper said.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, asked about the report at a
regular news conference, said it was extremely important for Japan to
protect its advanced technology and prevent it from leaking overseas.
Yomiuri quoted investigators as saying the former employee was
suspected of providing information relating to Toshiba's NAND flash
memory technology to SK Hynix Inc after he started working at the South
Korean company.
NAND memory chips, used to store data in smartphones and tablets,
are a key source of profit for Toshiba, whose key competitors in the
business include South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and U.S.
chipmaker SanDisk Corp.
Toshiba's shares fell 1.3 percent on Thursday to 454 yen, compared with a 0.5 percent rise in Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei average.
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