UCLA Professor Faces 219 Years in Prison for Sending US Missile Chips to China
By Jennings Brown on 15 Jul 2019 at 3:30PM
An adjunct professor of electrical engineering at UCLA has been convicted of 18 federal charges in connection with illegally exporting semiconductor chips with military applications to China, The Verge reports.
Last week, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a California federal court convicted Yi-Chi Shih of all charges on 26th June, including conspiracy to violate a federal law that prohibits certain exports, false tax returns, and wire and mail fraud.
A news release from the DOJ states Shih and co-defendant Kiet Ahn Mai collaborated to gain access to a computer belonging to a US firm that builds monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), which are used in military technologies like fighter jets, missiles, and missile guidance systems. The firm was not named, but DARPA, the Navy, and the Air Force are reportedly some of its customers.
https://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/07/ucla-professor-faces-219-years-in-prison-for-sending-us-missile-chips-to-china/
