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I'm surprised nobody has pointed out yet that the headline is mistaken - no code was stolen in this incident. It was hardware designs that were stolen, as the f
by lstyls 11y ago
I'm surprised nobody has pointed out yet that the headline is mistaken - no code was stolen in this incident. It was hardware designs that were stolen, as the first line of the article states:
>> "The Obama administration on Tuesday announced the arrest of a Chinese professor and the indictment of five other Chinese citizens in what it contended was a decade-long scheme to steal microelectronics designs from Silicon Valley companies."
- gwern 11y agoHow do you know? Software is intimately involved in all parts of chip design - what are hardware description languages like Verilog or VHDL, and the chips written in them, but code? If they didn't steal code what did they steal?