Court Sentences Ex-TSMC Engineer to 10 Years in the 2nm Trade Secret Case

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• 半導体2026/09/23@LawDesk

  Taiwan Indicts Three Engineers Over the Theft of TSMC's 2nm Secrets

  Intellectual Property Branch, Taiwan High Prosecutors Office, 164 Bo'ai Road, Zhongzheng District, Taipei 100006, Taiwan

  開始 2025/08/27確定確度 85%1.1 年前The 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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• 半導体2026/09/23@LawDesk

  Supreme Court Makes the TSMC 2nm Leak Sentences Final

  Supreme Court, 6 Changsha Street Section 1, Zhongzheng District, Taipei 10048, Taiwan

  開始 2026/07/30確定確度 88%55 日前Focus Taiwan^[1] (CNA^[4]), 30 July 2026: 'The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected appeals by two former ... TSMC employees ... making their sentences final'; PTS^[2] quotes the court's deputy spokesman on the ruling of the 30th. No time is given, so it is an all-day date.

  Taiwan's Supreme Court dismissed the appeals of Chen Li-ming and Chen Wei-chieh, making their 10- and 6-year sentences for leaking TSMC's 2nm and 14nm secrets final; both go straight to prison.

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• 司法2026/09/21@LawDesk

  Sam Bankman-Fried Is Sentenced to 25 Years

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse, 500 Pearl Street, New York, NY 10007, United States

  

  開始 2024/03/28確定確度 85%2.5 年前Dated by the US Attorney's own press release announcing the sentence, issued on 28 March 2024.^[1]

  The founder of FTX was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 25 years in prison and ordered to forfeit more than $11bn, four months after a jury convicted him on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy over the theft of customer deposits from the cryptocurrency exchange.

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• 半導体2017/06/21@ThePinGang

  In December last year TSMC started to work on its 5nm process

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  開始 2020/03/31確定確度 79%6.5 年前Happened as dated, per hexus.net^[1]: "…progress of these plans, with a target launch date set for H1 2020. Now a recent report suggests th…"

  In December last year TSMC started to work on its 5nm process. In the following January we heard from the firm's CEO about the progress of these plans, with a target launch date set for H1 2020. Now a recent report suggests that TSMC is confident of reaching its previously publicised goals, as it has started to allocate between 300 and 400 R&D staff to work on developing its 3nm process.

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• 司法2026/09/21@LawDesk

  A Houston Jury Convicts Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling

  Bob Casey United States Courthouse, 515 Rusk Street, Houston, TX 77002, United States

  

  開始 2006/05/25確定確度 85%20.3 年前The Department of Justice's^[1] release is dated "THURSDAY, MAY 25, 2006" and states the jury "returned its verdict today".

  After 56 days of trial and six days of deliberation, a federal jury in Houston convicted Enron's two former chief executives. Kenneth Lay was found guilty on all six counts he faced; Jeffrey Skilling was convicted on conspiracy, securities fraud, false statements and insider trading counts, closing the criminal case over the largest US corporate collapse of its time.

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• 半導体2026/09/23@TechDesk

  US and Taiwan Sign a $250 Billion Chip Investment Deal

  TSMC·…U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20230, United States

  開始 2026/01/15確定確度 86%251 日前CNBC^[1], published 15 January 2026: 'The U.S. and Taiwan have reached a trade agreement ... the Department of Commerce announced Thursday'; USTR's^[2] February fact sheet dates the 'Memorandum of Understanding signed by AIT and TECRO on January 15, 2026'. No signing time is given, so it is an all-day date.

  A memorandum signed in Washington commits Taiwanese chipmakers such as TSMC to at least $250 billion of new US investment plus $250 billion in Taiwan credit guarantees, in return for a 15% tariff cap and Section 232 chip-tariff exemptions for companies building US fabs.

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• 半導体2026/09/23@TechDesk

  TSMC Starts Volume Production of 2nm (N2) Chips in Kaohsiung

  TSMC·…TSMC Fab22 P1, 園區北路, Nanzi District, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan

  開始 2025/12/31推定確度 73%266 日前TSMC's^[1][2] 2nm page says N2 "has started volume production in 4Q25 as planned" and its 2025 annual report that it "entered high volume manufacturing in 4Q'25"; neither names the day, so the quarter's last day stands in.

  TSMC's first nanosheet-transistor node, N2, entered volume production in the fourth quarter of 2025 as planned, starting at Fab 22 in Kaohsiung, with Fab 20 in Hsinchu as its second 2nm fab.

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• 半導体2026/09/23@TechDesk

  TSMC's Second Kumamoto Fab (JASM) Starts 3nm Volume Production

  TSMC·…JASM, Haramizu, Kikuyo, Kikuchi County, Kumamoto Prefecture 869-1103, Japan

  開始 2028/12/31推定12 か月遅れ確度 71%2.3 年後Only a year is given: Taiwan's MOEA says the fab is "scheduled to start installing equipment and come online in 2028", and C.C. Wei said on the 16 April 2026 call that "commercial production is scheduled to begin in 2028" - so the year's last day, estimated.^[1]

  JASM's second fab in Kikuyo, Kumamoto - switched from 6nm-class chips to TSMC's 3nm process - is due to start volume production in 2028 at 15,000 12-inch wafers a month, making Japan's first 3nm chips about a year after the end-2027 start TSMC first promised.

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• 司法2026/09/23@LawDesk

  Baltimore Jury Orders J&J to Pay $1.56 Billion Over Baby Powder Cancer

  Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. Courthouse, 100 North Calvert Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202, United States

  開始 2025/12/22確定確度 81%275 日前The Baltimore Banner's report of Tuesday 23 December 2025 says "The jury returned the verdict in favor of Cherie Craft ... on Monday in Baltimore Circuit Court", i.e. Monday 22 December 2025 (Bloomberg: "Jurors in state court in Baltimore late Monday"); no time of day is reported, so the pin is all day.^[1]

  A Baltimore City jury awarded Cherie Craft $59.84 million in compensatory and $1.5 billion in punitive damages, finding J&J's talc baby powder exposed her to the asbestos behind her peritoneal mesothelioma - the largest talc verdict for a single plaintiff. J&J said it would appeal.

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• 半導体2026/09/23@TechDesk

  TSMC's 1.6nm-Class A16 Process Enters Volume Production

  TSMC·…TSMC headquarters, 8 Lixing 6th Road, Baoshan, Hsinchu County 30082, Taiwan

  開始 2027/12/31延期12 か月遅れ確度 67%1.3 年後TSMC's^[2][5] Kevin Zhang told Tom's Hardware "A16 will be ready for production in 2026... we expect volume production to begin in 2027", and TSMC's roadmap slide lists A16 under 2027; with no quarter named, the year's last day stands in.

  A16, TSMC's first node with Super Power Rail backside power delivery, is expected to reach volume production in 2027, a year after the 2026 production TSMC planned when it unveiled the node.

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• 半導体2026/09/23@TechDesk

  TSMC's Dresden Fab (ESMC) Starts Production

  TSMC·…European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC) GmbH, Robert-Bosch-Ring, Hellerau/Wilschdorf, 01109 Dresden, Saxony, Germany

  開始 2027/12/31推定確度 73%1.3 年後TSMC's^[1][6] founding release gives a bound, not a day: "production targeted to begin by the end of 2027"; at the September 2026 topping-out the partners still said production starts in 2027 and Hardwareluxx^[3] reported tool installation "bis Ende 2027", after which the first chips follow - so 31 December 2027, estimated.

  ESMC, TSMC's EUR 10 billion joint venture with Bosch, Infineon and NXP, is due to start production at its Dresden fab by the end of 2027 - Europe's first FinFET-capable foundry, making 28/22nm and 16/12nm chips mainly for cars and industry.

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• 半導体2026/09/23@TechDesk

  TSMC's Dresden Fab (ESMC) Tops Out

  TSMC·…European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC) GmbH, Robert-Bosch-Ring, Hellerau/Wilschdorf, 01109 Dresden, Saxony, Germany

  開始 2026/09/14 10:00確定確度 80%9 日前Focus Taiwan^[1]: "A topping out ceremony was held Monday at the site" (dateline Sept. 14, "The ceremony, held on Sept. 14"); dpa's preview gave the time: ESMC "feiert ... am Montag (12.00 Uhr) mit einem Richtfest den Abschluss des Rohbaus" - noon CEST, 10:00 UTC.

  Twenty-five months after its groundbreaking, ESMC - TSMC's joint venture with Bosch, Infineon and NXP - celebrated the topping-out of its roughly EUR 10 billion chip fab in Dresden, TSMC's first in Europe. The shell is finished; cleanroom fit-out follows, with the first process tools due in the second half of 2027.

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