A worker in the dust-free room, called the clean room, where the chips are made of producer ASML. Photo: Reuters / Lex van Lieshout
Chinese state hackers have broken into the Dutch producer ASML. That report anonymous sources across technology site Tweakers and the NIS.
The attack would have focused on the Dutch branch of the company. One source is the French branch of ASML attacked. The hackers in the attack possible information about high technology machines for chip captured
The anonymous sources Tweakers quotes are inconclusive regarding the impact of the hack: according to two sources, the impact is great;. as it is rather another source and it is unlikely that the government hackers had something stolen documents.
TVNZ the messages has so far been unable to confirm. Technology Editor Marc
There is no reporting requirement for this type of hacks. A company like ASML does not need to say that the victim of corporate espionage. The semiconductor industry, which annually $ 360 billion in revenues, is generally protected very strict. That certainly applies to ASML, which also has information on the production of its customers
It is certain that the technological knowledge ASML in the house is valuable.; the company has a market share of 80 percent and the EUV program is the basis of the next generation of lithography machines that can produce chips with precise patterns. On that basis, ASML expects annual sales in 2020 to double to 10 billion.
ASML would not comment on the message.
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