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Cairo – Samia Sayed – Xiaolang Zhang, a former Apple employee, who pleaded guilty to stealing information about the company’s self-driving car development, was sentenced to 120 days in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Zhang was arrested in 2018. At San Jose International Airport as he was about to board a plane bound for China, he initially pleaded not guilty until he changed his tune in 2022 and admitted to stealing trade secrets.
According to the “engadget” website, in addition to spending time behind bars, he must also pay compensation amounting to $146,984, according to the court document for his sentencing, which was first seen by 9to5Mac.
The former Apple employee worked as a hardware engineer on the company’s decade-old self-driving vehicle initiative, codenamed Project Titan.
Acting on Apple’s complaint, Zhang transferred a 25-page document containing circuit board engineering diagrams for the company’s self-driving car to his wife’s laptop via AirDrop.
He also saved a copy of the technical manuals describing Apple’s prototype of this laptop, as well as stealing circuit boards and a server from the company’s development labs.
Zhang resigned from Apple after paternity leave and a trip to China, telling the iPhone maker that he would work in the country for XPeng Motors.
This reportedly sparked an investigation, since XPeng is also working on self-driving technology, which revealed that Zhang was caught on surveillance camera taking devices from Apple labs and transferring files to his wife’s computer.
He is expected to turn himself in by June 19, after which he will be sent to a minimum security facility as close as possible to his home in San Jose, California.
Apple has been working on a self-driving car for a decade, but has yet to release a product that consumers can buy.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman recently reported that the company has changed its plans and is now developing a Tesla-like electric car rather than a full self-driving car.
The long-awaited Apple Car is now expected to make its debut no later than 2028.
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