A Chinese engineer originally worked at Apple Corporation pleaded guilty of criminal charges and acknowledged that he stole Apple's business secrets before a Chinese competitors in the field of autonomous driving.
According to Bloomberg, according to the court documents, Zhang Xiaoran (transliteration) acknowledged theft of commercial secrets at the hearing of the San Jose Court of California on Monday.
The judge ordered the archive of his confession agreement and set the date of verdict on November 14.
Zhang Xiaoran was arrested during the flight to China in July 2018.The indictment shows that Zhang Xiaoran originally developed software and hardware for Apple's automatic car plan, and is responsible for designing circuit boards and analyzing sensor data.In April 2018, Zhang Xiaoran, who was accompanied by maternity leave, raised his house and returned to China. After returning to the United States, he expressed his intention to resign to the supervisor. He went to China to work as a Zhidong Automobile Technology Co., Ltd. named "Xiaopeng Motors".
Apple's security staff told Zhang Xiaoran on April 28 that he found that he had searched the company's confidential database and returned to the company during the accompanying vacation.Zhang Xiaoran was accused of taking the circuit board and computer server from the self -driving car hardware laboratory from the company.Zhang Xiaoran explained that he was planning to adjust his job inside, and believed that the above hardware was helpful to transfer.
Appeal of the Federal Investigation Bureau searched Zhang Xiaoran's apartment on June 27, 2018, and found that he bought a ticket to China on July 7, 2018, so he took action until the same day, and at St. Pharma AirportHe arrested him.The official said that Zhang was suspected of downloading the data to his own computer, including the blueprint of the 25 -page autonomous car circuit board, and the computer file "became the basis for instant prosecution."
