Taiwan Indicts Three Engineers Over the Theft of TSMC's 2nm Secrets
CONFIRMADO85% DE CONFIANZAThe Intellectual Property Branch's own release, posted 114-08-27 (27 August 2025), says the case against the three detained defendants 'was concluded today (27th)' ('於今（27）日偵查終結') and an indictment filed; no time is given, so it is an all-day date.[1]
Prosecutors charged former TSMC engineer Chen Li-ming, by then at Tokyo Electron's Taiwan unit, and two serving TSMC engineers with stealing 2nm trade secrets, seeking 14, 9 and 7 years in Taiwan's first indictment for theft of a national core key technology.
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