Feds Indict Ex-Google Engineers for Stealing Tensor Chip Secrets
A US grand jury charged three people with allegedly stealing trade secrets tied to Google's Pixel Tensor processor.
Three people — including two former Google engineers — have been indicted by a US grand jury for allegedly stealing trade secrets related to the Tensor processor that powers Google's Pixel phones.
The third defendant is the husband of one of the engineers. All three face charges tied to the alleged theft of proprietary chip technology from one of the world's biggest tech companies.
Google's Tensor chips are custom-designed silicon at the heart of the Pixel lineup, handling everything from AI tasks to core phone performance. Losing trade secrets around that kind of hardware is no small deal.
Details on where the stolen secrets allegedly ended up remain thin, but the indictment signals federal prosecutors are taking the case seriously. Google has not publicly commented on the charges.