Biswamohan Pani is a former
design engineer
A design engineer is an engineer focused on the engineering design process in any of the various engineering disciplines (including civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical, textiles, aerospace, nuclear, manufacturing, systems, and structural /bu ...
at
Intel
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the devel ...
. In November 2008 he was charged with stealing $1 billion worth of
trade secret
Trade secrets are a type of intellectual property that includes formulas, practices, processes, designs, instruments, patterns, or compilations of information that have inherent economic value because they are not generally known or readily a ...
s from Intel while he worked for its main rival,
Advanced Micro Devices
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. While it initially manufa ...
(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
Itanium
Itanium ( ) is a discontinued family of 64-bit Intel microprocessors that implement the Intel Itanium architecture (formerly called IA-64). Launched in June 2001, Intel marketed the processors for enterprise servers and high-performance comp ...
microprocessor
A microprocessor is a computer processor where the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit, or a small number of integrated circuits. The microprocessor contains the arithmetic, logic, and control circu ...
.
The incident shed light, according to
BusinessWeek
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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
wire fraud
Mail fraud and wire fraud are terms used in the United States to describe the use of a physical or electronic mail system to defraud another, and are federal crimes there. Jurisdiction is claimed by the federal government if the illegal activit ...
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.
See also
*'' AMD v. Intel''
References
External links
''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)
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