Also, for example, he said "[people talk about] senior R&D employees", but it is subtitled as "a wave of employees".
The three points above are accurate however.
Not sure, but wasn't China their biggest client? And they didn't want to offend them, I think.
I remember reading about it vaguely?
https://nos.nl/artikel/2280789-samsung-had-rol-bij-spionage-...
Google translated:
'He probably refers to Samsung. That company would have "spoused" the spies to steal the software and start their own business, thereby creating a competitor for ASML. The software is needed to set up chip machines for optimum production of electronic chips.
In 2016, Samsung became a 30 percent shareholder in Xtal, and ASML subsequently lost Samsung as a customer for this software.'
Which doesn't surprise me, as that's practically ingrained in the Chinese culture, and is another factor to take into account when hiring Chinese people.
I understand what you mean, but it's literally illegal to take any factor into account when hiring Chinese people (literal racism). It's literally a protected status.
Is there some other way to interview and test whether someone will steal your code and send it to China, other than the fact that they're Chinese?
If you can come up with an alternative test you give everyone, it's okay. Using nationality as a shortcut is not OK.
Main points raised there:
1) This story is about four employees, who were not closely familiar to the core technology of ASML.
2) Looking at the circumstances, it seems far more likely that this was an action by ex-exployees with commercial motives, rather than government-sponsored spying.
3) ASMLs core technology simply remains in The Netherlands. An anecdote: 15 years ago ASML came with the most advanced lithography scanner of that time. It was copied in China to the last screw, but the device simply didn't work, because they lacked intricate knowledge on its actual operation.
[1] https://www.npostart.nl/nieuwsuur/16-04-2019/VPWON_1297076
[2] https://pastebin.com/Zg55qtYK