Biswamohan Pani is a former

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Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and Delaware General Corporation Law, incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer compo ...

. In November 2008 he was charged with stealing $1 billion worth of

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s from Intel while he worked for its main rival,

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(AMD).Anastasia Tubanos
''Intel Employee Charged with Theft''
, theWHIR.com, November 7, 2008. The information he allegedly obtained was believed to be related to Intel's then next-generation

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. The incident shed light, according to

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, on the vulnerability of Intel, one of the world's biggest and most sophisticated technology companies. On April 6, 2012, Biswamohan Pani pleaded guilty to five counts of

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before U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV for accessing Intel systems and downloading Intel secret documents between May 8, 2008, and June 10, 2008, valued by Intel between $200 million and $400 million. On 8 August 2012 he was sentenced to three years in federal prison and given a fine of US$17,500.''Ex-Intel Employee Jailed for Stealing Company Secrets''
Tom's Hardware, 9 August 2012.

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''Former Intel Employee Indicted for Stealing More than $1 Billion of Trade Secrets''
at the U.S. Department of Justice (November 5, 2008) AMD people Intel people Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-engineer-stub

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