Imperial Valley News Imperial Valley News Center Engineer Sentenced to Over 5 Years in Prison for Conspiring to Illegally Export to China Semiconductor Chips with Military Uses Details Written by Imperial Valley News Los Angeles, California - An electrical engineer who schemed to illegally obtain integrated circuits with military applications that were exported to China without the required filing of electronic export information was sentenced Thursday to 63 months in federal prison. Yi-Chi Shih, 66, of Hollywood Hills, was sentenced by United ...