Micron Argues Disclosing Code to China's YMTC is Security Threat – Bloomberg Law

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By Annelise Levy
Micron Technology Inc. cited a “significant risk” to US national security when urging a federal judge to reconsider an order requiring the company to turn over source code files to China’s state-owned Yangtze Memory Tech. Co. Ltd.
The semiconductor giant argued that a magistrate judge failed to consider the security threat created by their Dec. 12 order requiring Micron to provide a non-secure, hard copy of 73 pages of documents detailing its “highly confidential fabrication processes” of flash memory. YMTC has already reviewed the entire source code file in a controlled environment, and shouldn’t be privy to more than 15 …
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