You know I feel a bit funny about this. These hit-job news articles remind me of Samsung-Apple lawsuits which just ended last week. There were numerous anti-S

You know I feel a bit funny about this. These hit-job news articles remind me of Samsung-Apple lawsuits which just ended last week. There were numerous anti-Samsung pieces (eg, the infamous Vanity Fair article comes to my mind which was rumored to have been influenced/paid for by Apple's lawyers at MOFO)_trying to sway the public opinion against Samsung during the course of the lawsuit. Samsung had a couple of opportunities to overturn the case, but the Obama administration actually stepped in in the name of "public interest" and reversed their win, effectively protecting Apple from getting punished for stealing Samsung's IPs. Now, I'm going to wear a tin-foil hat and speculate that these blown-out-of-proportion articles are influenced and/or paid for by Micron and the US trade commission in anticipation of adversarial ruling from China. Micron is a politically well connected company and is also one of the last semi manufacturers in the US. It's important to develop and win public approval before making drastic public/trade policy -- not that Trump would care, but Micron certainly does. I have no problem with this, BTW. I think it's fair to put nation's interest before IPs and other commercial activity -- as the Obama administration did. China likewise can do whatever they see as necessary to protect and nurture their own.