Former Fort Collins Avago Technologies employee charged with espionage

SAN FRANCISCO — Federal prosecutors have charged six Chinese nationals, including three who earned advanced degrees from the University of Southern California, with stealing wireless technology from a pair of U.S. companies.

Hao Zhang, Wei Pang and Huisui Zhang met at the university and conspired to steal technology from Skyworks Solutions Inc. and Avago Technologies soon after graduating in 2006, federal prosecutors said. Both companies are publicly traded chip suppliers for Apple’s iPhones and manufacture other communications-related products. Pang worked at Avago in Fort Collins from 2006 to 2009.

A 32-page indictment charging the six with economic espionage…