Ex-Google employees charged for ‘stealing trade secrets’ around Pixel’s Tensor chip

US courts have charged three individuals, including two ex-Google employees, regarding the theft of trade secrets in regards to Google’s efforts with Tensor chips in Pixel phones.

In a US court case (USA v. Ghandali, 26-cr-00071), three individuals have been charged with 14 felony counts of conspiracy and theft of trade secrets, as well as destroying evidence. There’s, of course, no word on what in particular was stolen.

Bloomberg reports:

The three… were charged in a US indictment unsealed Thursday on 14 felony counts of conspiracy and theft of trade secrets and destroying evidence.

Two of the three – Samaneh Ghandali and her sister, Soroor Ghandali – were formerly Google employees. Samaneh was a hardware engineer at Google while Soroor was an intern. Both went on to work at a different tech company later on. Samaneh’s husband, Mohammadjavad Khosravi, was also charged in the case and worked at yet another tech company, but had applied to…