How serious is the technology breach by Cadence?

[Arthur Hanson]

Cadence Design Systems Agrees to Plead Guilty and Pay Over $140 Million for Unlawfully Exporting Semiconductor Design Tools to a Restricted PRC Military University

The Counterintelligence and Export Control Section (CES) of the Justice Department’s National Security Division (NSD), and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California (NDCA) today announced that Cadence Design Systems Inc. (Cadence), a multinational electronic design...

www.justice.gov

Any thoughts by the SemiWiki community on this technology breach by Cadence would be appreciated. Will this help in preventing breaches in the future?

 

[samwilde]

Less money for Cadence I guess.
That Chinese university has close ties to Phytium and Chinese supercomputer efforts.

 

[swka]

Cadence Design Systems Agrees to Plead Guilty and Pay Over $140 Million for Unlawfully Exporting Semiconductor Design Tools to a Restricted PRC Military University

The Counterintelligence and Export Control Section (CES) of the Justice Department’s National Security Division (NSD), and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California (NDCA) today announced that Cadence Design Systems Inc. (Cadence), a multinational electronic design...

www.justice.gov

Any thoughts by the SemiWiki community on this technology breach by Cadence would be appreciated. Will this help in preventing breaches in the future?

even though in practice everyone knows there are loop holes, not just for cadence but the whole EDA industry, having something like this formerly charged and proven guilty is very rare. this must be very bad behind the scenes ...