In February 2017, the innovative new glass protection technology, known as Miraj Diamond Glass and manufactured by the American company Akhan.
Back then, the company was optimistic in expecting its technology to be used in smartphones before the end of 2017. That has yet to happen, but the company is currently involved in a dispute with Chinese technology Huawei. The dispute even resulted in the FBI running a sting operation against the Chinese tech giant at CES 2019.
It turned out that Akhan Semiconductor had entered into talks with Huawei on licensing the technology to the smartphone maker. Akhan claims the technology is 6 times stronger and 10 times more scratch resistant than Gorilla Glass, the industry standard that generates around $ 3 billion in annual sales for Corning Inc.
According to what has been detailed, the firm provided Samsung and Huawei with samples of the glass. An early sample of Miraj Diamond Glass was sent to Huawei's lab in San Diego, but there was an agreement that the glass would not be cut in two. This is standard practice to avoid any chance that the company's engineers will reverse engineer the glass process if it is cut in two. However, when the glass was returned to Akhan, there were signs that the glass had been cut in two and some fragments had been removed.
Huawei is not a rookie in such an IP theft indictment. She has always had such a toga hanging around his neck. In 2002, Cisco Systems Inc. accused the company of stealing the source code for its routers. Motorola said in a 2010 lawsuit that Huawei had successfully turned some of its Chinese-born employees into informants. And in 2012, the US House Intelligence Committee called Huawei a national security threat and urged the US government and companies not to buy its products. Huawei denied all claims.
The lawsuits from Cisco and Motorola ended with settlements. The United States Department of Justice also suspects that Huawei is stealing protected trade secrets from T-Mobile, those related to their experience with the touch screen testing the robot Tappy.
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