Ex-Broadcom engineer asks for house arrest over IP theft
this year, accepting a deal acknowledging he had copied Broadcom trade secrets in the form of files related to design specs for networking chips used in datacenters.
He went on to state that after development meetings at his new employer,"he occasionally looked at the Broadcom files to see if he could get insights into what the engineers were talking about. Typically, the files proved unhelpful because there was just too much data." Kim's team also added that the files, which he took"as a crutch if and when he needed one," would not have been practically useful because Broadcom appears to have used customized Perl scripts for its datacenter ASIC designs, where Mersenne's devs used Python."He referenced the files to refresh his memory as to certain procedures, terminology and to remind himself of how things were done at Broadcom, but he never used that data to 'develop' products.
His lawyers went on to say that it was an"exaggeration" to say"Kim singlehandedly threatened the 'national security of the United States'," as Broadcom had earlier claimed.], submitted on the same day, that the court should impose a sentence of 15 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, a $5,000 fine, and restitution.
It said that Kim had worked on various Broadcom products during his time at the company, including the Trident family of networking integrated circuit chips (such as the
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