At first the software engineer did not succeed in making off with a trove of Santa Clara computer chip giant Intel’s trade secrets, but then he tried again.

Jinfeng Luo, at Intel since 2014, had been told July 7 his job at the company would be terminated, effective July 31, according to a lawsuit Intel filed against him Friday.

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Eight days before his employment was to end, Luo allegedly hooked up an external hard drive to his Intel laptop, but when he tried to download a file, the company’s internal controls blocked the transfer, the lawsuit claimed.

Five days later, the lawsuit alleged, Luo deployed a different technology, a more sophisticated gadget that resembles a small computer server, called a network storage device.

Over the next three days, Luo downloaded nearl

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