Former LG employee leaks $1b in top secret plasma info to Chinese manufacturer
By Darren Murph 
posted Mar 5th 2008 8:02PM
posted Mar 5th 2008 8:02PM
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posted Mar 5th 2008 8:02PM
The amount of electronics thrown away rather than recycled in 2007.
The EPA reports that 82% of electronics disposal in 2007 ended up in the garbage (mostly landfills) rather than a recycling center. (source: EPA, July 2008)
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This question doesn't answer the truly important question: "Will the Chinese firm pass the R&D savings along to us, the consumers, when their cheap Chinese plasmas start showing up at the nearest Wal*Mart?" :)
he should be shot as a traitor. What an ass, not just selling out your former employer but to the chinese? Gods, I hope his parents take their own lives in shame.
This is par for the course. It's unusual that this made the news. Industrial espionage is a big cash and time saver for China.
It's only a matter of time before they start cranking out goods of better design and quality than is possible to make elsewhere.
Tech diffusion went UK->US->Japan->Taiwan->Korea->China. Each time they started off making knockoffs then transitioned to first party manufacture then moved to design and eventually R&D.
UK->US->Japan->Taiwan->Korea->China
Who's next in that roughly east to west geographic line--India? Then the various "stans" west of India? Russia and/or its former republics?
Then all the way back around to the UK.
UK->US->Japan->Taiwan->Korea->China
Who's next in that roughly east to west geographic line--India? Then the various "stans" west of India? Russia and/or its former republics?
Then all the way back around to the UK.
Don't forget all of Africa too, as far as cheap exploitable labour goes!
Ryan, I think the problem with much of Africa is that civil strife and corruption is quite high. As much as I'd like to see some more stable employment there, I can see why there would be some aprehension on the part of the investors.
China is slowly killing us all.
Not only is labor FREE there, but their R&D is too.
They will have all the jobs, yet no lives worth living, and we'll have no jobs to buy their useless Low end products.
100~150 years ago that is what the Europeans were saying about the US.
We were an undeveloped country that was stealing IP from Europe and making very low cost versions of products due to our very cheap living costs and standards of living. We had draconian living conditions and lived under the thumbs of very rich and powerful aristocrats who used money to buy laws and power to keep the workers down. At times private armies and at times the US army was used to enforce this power over the workers and forcefully make them work.
Things changed here. It took a century of build up and 30 years of rapid change.
I suspect that the same will happen in China.
The way to survive this global change is to pay attention to your interests at home and ensure your footing is stable. If China doesn't take the global role some other country will. It's not important if China takes a leading global role as long as the US is in good shape.