— REUTERSA former employee at SK Hynix has been sentenced to 18 months in ​jail for leaking information on semiconductor ‌manufacturing technology to a Chinese firm, the Yonhap News Agency reported on Sunday. The Seoul High Court made the ruling ​in an appeal case against the defendant, ​upholding the lower court's sentence for ⁠leaking classified information on so-called CMOS image sensors, ​a technology used for non-memory chips in smartphone cameras ​and laptops, to a Chinese company in 2022, Yonhap said. The defendant disclosed some of the information ​in a ​resume submitted ⁠to a Chinese firm, Yonhap said, without naming the Chinese company. Read: Great-power spy conflict is brewing in AsiaThe ​man admitted all of the charges ​and ⁠most of the information he took was retrieved by the company, the report said. The ⁠Seoul ​High Court did not immediately ​respond to a Reuters request for comment outside business ​hours.