Two Chinese nationals have been charged with conspiring to illegally export semiconductor-manufacturing machinery to a prohibited Chinese company, federal prosecutors said.
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Scientist Gets 5 Years For Exporting Semiconductors To China
Law360 (July 22, 2021, 10:03 PM EDT) A California federal judge sentenced a Los Angeles man to over five years in prison Thursday after a jury found him guilty of participating in a scheme to illegally export integrated circuits with military applications to China, defrauding U.S. chipmaker Cree Inc. out of its proprietary technology and lying to government officials.
U.S. District Judge John A. Kronstadt sentenced 66-year-old Yi-Chi Shih, a U.S. citizen, to 63 months in prison on Thursday, roughly two and a half years after Shih s associate Kiet Ahn Mai, pled guilty to smuggling.
Judge sentences electrical engineer that stole military chip tech for China
An electrical engineer and former adjunct professor at UCLA was sentenced to five years after being found guilty of stealing military chip technology from the U.S. and giving it to Chinese companies.
A federal judge sentenced Yi-Chi Shih to 63 months in prison because he took semiconductor chips with military applications to China without proper authorization. (Image by marijana1 from Pixabay via Courthouse News)
(CN) A federal judge sentenced a Chinese electrical engineer to five years in prison for illegally exporting military technology from the United States to China.