According to The Mercury News, Jinfeng Luo, who started at Intel in 2014, received a termination notice last July 7th, ending his service with the company at the same month.
They’re saying Intel’s chips suck compared to the competition now, so the data stolen is for technology that is worse than other chips available already (or soon to be available, depending on what was stolen).
My money is on chinas domestic CPU production. They’ve been pursuing that for a while now, but have always been years behind even Intel. They’re the only ones I can think of that would be able to leverage this info to significantly improve.
Oh, no! Someone is going to get what was world leading technology if it was 8 years ago this might be a problem.
Not sure what you are refering to.
They’re saying Intel’s chips suck compared to the competition now, so the data stolen is for technology that is worse than other chips available already (or soon to be available, depending on what was stolen).
My money is on chinas domestic CPU production. They’ve been pursuing that for a while now, but have always been years behind even Intel. They’re the only ones I can think of that would be able to leverage this info to significantly improve.