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Laid-off Intel employee allegedly steals 'Top Secret' files, then disappears — ex-engineer downloaded 18,000 files before vanishing (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 76 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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).

[–] papertowels@mander.xyz 3 points 3 days ago

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.