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China's prosperity and advancement is mostly due to that kind of theft on an industrial scale. It has an astonishing network of spies to steal ideas and technologies, which its companies then shamelessly copy, and sell for less (since spying costs are less than R&D costs…).
 
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I always wondered how just one or two chips couldn’t be stolen where they manufacture these chips. Millions and millions of chips are made. I’m more surprised stories like this are rare.
 
I always wondered how just one or two chips couldn’t be stolen where they manufacture these chips. Millions and millions of chips are made. I’m more surprised stories like this are rare.
Stealing the chip itself doesn't net you much; what they really want is the details about the fabrication process for making those denser 2nm chips. If you know what novel steps your competitor used, you can copy those steps and apply them to your own chips, thus reducing your own R&D cost/time and potentially coming very close to catching up with that competitor.
 
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