Article: Ex-Intel engineer pleads guilty to stealing trade secrets.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

SAN JOSE, Calif. _ A former Intel engineer Friday pleaded guilty to stealing technology from the chip giant, ending the first criminal case brought in Silicon Valley under a stricter 1996 federal trade-secrets law.

In a brief hearing in federal court in San Jose, Say Lye Ow, a 30-year-old Malaysian national, pleaded guilty to one felony count of illegally copying Intel technology when he left the company in 1998. Ow originally was charged with stealing materials connected to the design and testing of Intel's Itanium microprocessor, now used for high-end servers.

Ow was the first defendant in Northern California to be charged with violating the Economic ...

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