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Ex-Tokyo Electron employee sentenced to 10 years, with four other defendants getting between 10 months and six years.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Published On 27 Apr 2026<\/span>27 Apr 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n A court in Taiwan has fined the local unit of Japan\u2019s Tokyo Electron $5m, and sentenced five defendants to jail terms of up to 10 years, in a high-profile trade secrets case involving chipmaker TSMC.<\/p>\n The ruling follows one of Taiwan\u2019s most prominent cases related to the island\u2019s core technologies, involving the alleged theft of TSMC\u2019s sensitive computer chip technology and charges under the National Security Act.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n In August 2025, prosecutors indicted Chen Li-ming, a former TSMC and Tokyo Electron employee, on suspicion of unlawfully obtaining trade secrets, along with other defendants, in a bid to help Tokyo Electron win more equipment orders from TSMC.<\/p>\n Chen was sentenced to 10 years in prison, with three other former employees of the world\u2019s largest contract manufacturer of advanced AI chips receiving terms ranging from two to six years.<\/p>\n The court in Taipei\u2019s sister city of New Taipei also gave a former Tokyo Electron employee a 10-month sentence, suspended for three years.<\/p>\n Tokyo Electron and TSMC did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Ex-Tokyo Electron employee sentenced to 10 years, with four other defendants getting between 10 months and six years. Published On 27 Apr 202627 Apr 2026 A court in Taiwan has fined the local unit of Japan\u2019s Tokyo Electron $5m, and sentenced five defendants to jail terms of up to 10 years, in a high-profile trade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n
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