i have heard of corpoarte espoinage..but what about a competitor of this semi conductor company taking out its competition to even the playing field for them? I have no idea how competitive that field is.
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I don’t post here often but when I read this something inside me said hmmm. 20 employees on same flight with semiconductor knowledge. Probably a coincidence....
Probably targeted because of 20 US Plant employees...even if overseas. I think terrorism, not espionage. Semiconductors have a lot of competition, why that one? It’s not exactly rocket science either.
First of all, I'm not sure what role Freescale plays today in the industry. They used to make PowerPC processors, but those are history now. I do not see their name often. In the current and emerging processor market (ARM) they are a nobody. Maybe I'm not looking; but theirs is not a household name here. The only Freescale products that I recognize are legacy ones. And they make some interesting RF semiconductors; but that's specialty stuff.
Second, if someone wants to inflict damage to a competitor, destruction of an airliner is hardly the most efficient way to go about it. Targeting low level employees who fly to a training (for example) is not going to hurt much. Taking out a VP, or a lead designer, would be more damaging - and that can be accomplished by sending two strong guys with blackjacks, masquerading as a routine robbery gone wrong. If two "robbers" is not a good option, a live grenade behind his entry door will do the job. High level, key employees do fly often - but they are not easy to predict; they are busy people, and they change their flights faster than they book them. Catching them at home is much easier.
I worked for one of their competitors, it too, is a really big international company.