(Bloomberg, California) A Chinese engineer who originally worked at Apple to plead guilty of criminal charges and acknowledged that before he was hopping to Chinese competitors, he stole Apple's commercial secrets.
According to Bloomberg, according to the court documents, engineer Zhang Xiaolang acknowledged theft of commercial secrets at the hearing of the San Jose Federal Court California on Monday on Monday.
The judge ordered the archive of Zhang Xiaolang's confession agreement to set the date of verdict on November 14.The heaviest penalty he faced was 10 years in prison and a $ 250,000 fine.
Zhang Xiaolang was arrested during the flight to China in July 2018.The indictment shows that Zhang Xiaolang originally developed software and hardware for Apple's automatic car plan, and was responsible for designing circuit boards and analyzing sensor data.
In April 2018, Zhang Xiaolang, who was accompanied by maternity leave, raised his family back to China. After returning to the United States, he expressed his intention to resign to the supervisor and worked at Xiaopeng Automobile Technology Co., Ltd.
Apple security staff told the supervisor on April 28 that Zhang Xiaolang had searched for the company's confidential database, and returned to the company during the period of accompanying the labor vacation.
Zhang Xiaolang was accused of taking the circuit board and computer server from the company's self -driving car hardware laboratory.He was also accused of downloading internal documents about the Apple Auto Project for a total of 25 pages of an engineering schematic diagram of a car circuit board.
Xiaopeng Automobile Officer Weiganly said that he did not understand the specific situation of the case, nor did he intervene in the subsequent investigation of the case of the US judicial organs, and it was not related to the case.
