A 43-year-old Russian engineer is accused of secretly supplying sensitive technical information from ASML, NXP, and TSMC to Russia, allegedly to assist in building a 28nm-capable fab there, reports Dutch newspaper NRC.
The engineer, identified in court documents only as German A., illicitly earned about €40,000 and now faces 18 to 32 months in prison. Though German A. alone could not steal full designs for a semiconductor, a coordinated group could potentially assist semiconductor production in Russia.
