Security News > 2021 > November > Former Broadcom engineer accused of pinching chip tech to share with new Chinese employer
A federal grand jury has charged a former Broadcom engineer with stealing trade secrets and using them while working at a new employer - a Chinese chip start-up.
Kim allegedly lifted the trade secrets from one of Broadcom's employee-only repositories as he prepared to leave the company in July of 2020.
The stolen information included details of what the US Justice Department described as products "Associated with a Broadcom family of chips often used in high-volume data centers".
The US Attorney's office in San Francisco alleges that over the next nine months Kim used Broadcom trade secrets on devices he worked on at his new gig.
Just what leaked from Broadcom is unclear and the DoJ's description of "Chips often used in high-volume data centers" could mean almost anything.
Investors were told that Broadcom Software has "Grown both average deal duration by increasing multiyear bookings as well as the number of deals that represent more than $1 million of annualized booking value".