A former Google software engineer has been convicted on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets. A superseding indictment filed in February 2025 detailed seven categories of trade secrets he allegedly stole and formally charged him with seven counts each of economic espionage and theft of trade secrets. In December 2023, less than two weeks before resigning from Google, he downloaded the stolen trade secrets onto his personal computer. Additionally, the trade secrets involved Google’s custom-designed SmartNIC technology, a specialized network interface card that facilitates high-speed communication within Google’s AI supercomputers and cloud networking products. He faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison for each count of theft of trade secrets under 18 U.S.C.