Semiconductors09/23/2026@LawDesk
Court Sentences Ex-TSMC Engineer to 10 Years in the 2nm Trade Secret Case
Intellectual Property and Commercial Court, 7 Xianmin Boulevard Section 2, Banqiao District, New Taipei 220, Taiwan
Starts 04/27/2026CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE149 days agoFocus Taiwan^[1] (CNA^[3][4][5]), 27 April 2026: 'A former TSMC engineer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison ... a court ruled Monday'; CNA says the verdict was read on the morning of the 27th. No time is given, so it is an all-day date.
Taiwan's Intellectual Property and Commercial Court jailed Chen Li-ming for 10 years, three TSMC engineers for 2 to 6 years, and fined Tokyo Electron's Taiwan unit NT$150 million - the first verdict under the National Security Act's core-technology clause.
NT$150M
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Semiconductors09/23/2026@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
Starts 08/27/2025CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE1.1 years agoThe 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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Semiconductors09/23/2026@TechDesk
TSMC Starts Volume Production of 2nm (N2) Chips in Kaohsiung
TSMC…TSMC Fab22 P1, 園區北路, Nanzi District, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan
Starts 12/31/2025ESTIMATED 73% CONFIDENCE266 days agoTSMC'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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Semiconductors06/21/2017@ThePinGang
In December last year TSMC started to work on its 5nm process
TSMC
Starts 03/31/2020 CONFIRMED 79% CONFIDENCE6.5 years agoHappened 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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Justice09/21/2026@LawDesk
Sam Bankman-Fried Is Sentenced to 25 Years
Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse, 500 Pearl Street, New York, NY 10007, United States
Starts 03/28/2024CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE2.5 years agoDated 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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Justice09/21/2026@LawDesk
A Houston Jury Convicts Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling
Bob Casey United States Courthouse, 515 Rusk Street, Houston, TX 77002, United States
Starts 05/25/2006CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE20.3 years agoThe 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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Semiconductors09/23/2026@TechDesk
TSMC's Second Kumamoto Fab (JASM) Starts 3nm Volume Production
TSMC…JASM, Haramizu, Kikuyo, Kikuchi County, Kumamoto Prefecture 869-1103, Japan
Starts 12/31/2028ESTIMATED12 months late71% CONFIDENCEin 2.3 yearsOnly 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.
$17B
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Law09/23/2026@LawDesk
Google and DOJ Due to File a Joint Proposed Final Judgment in Ad Tech Case
Albert V. Bryan United States Courthouse, 401 Courthouse Square, Alexandria, VA 22314, United StatesGoogle…
Starts 10/02/2026SCHEDULED 86% CONFIDENCEin 9 daysThe court's 2 September 2026 order (ECF 1857) directs the parties to "file one jointly proposed Final Judgment" "within 30 days of the date of this Order", which falls on 2 October 2026, and AdExchanger^[1] reports "Both parties have until October 2 to submit their proposed final judgments".
Google and the Justice Department must file one jointly proposed Final Judgment in the ad tech antitrust case by 2 October 2026, writing Judge Brinkema's behavioral remedies into an order that takes effect 60 days after she enters it.
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Semiconductors09/23/2026@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
Starts 01/15/2026CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE251 days agoCNBC^[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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Semiconductors09/23/2026@TechDesk
TSMC's Third Arizona Fab Starts Volume Production on N2 and A16
TSMC…P3, TSMC Arizona Fab 21, F Road, North Gateway, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona 85085, United States
Starts 12/31/2029ESTIMATED 58% CONFIDENCEin 3.3 yearsTSMC's^[1][4] Arizona page gives only a span: "Third Fab: In April 2025, TSMC broke ground on the site of the third fab, slated for N2 and A16 process technologies. Targeting volume production by the end of the decade." - so the decade's last day, estimated.
The third fab on TSMC's north Phoenix campus, where ground was broken in April 2025, is slated for its 2nm (N2) and A16 processes and targeted for volume production by the end of the decade - the most advanced chipmaking TSMC has committed to the United States.
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Semiconductors09/23/2026@TechDesk
TSMC Q2 2026 Results: Record $40.2B Revenue, Capex Raised to $60-64B
TSMC…Mandarin Oriental Taipei, 158 Dunhua North Road, Songshan District, Taipei 10548, Taiwan
Starts 07/16/2026 6:00AMCONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE69 days agoTSMC's^[1][2] release, datelined "HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C., Jul. 16, 2026", says TSMC "today announced" its second-quarter results, and the call transcript TSMC posts gives "EVENT DATE/TIME: JULY 16, 2026 / 6:00AM GMT" (2 p.m. Taiwan time, as the FTNN report of TSMC's schedule says: "16日下午2時").
TSMC reported second-quarter revenue of US$40.20 billion, up 33.7% from a year earlier, a 67.7% gross margin and record net income of NT$706.56 billion, guided Q3 revenue to US$44.6-45.8 billion and raised its 2026 capital budget to US$60-64 billion.
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Semiconductors09/23/2026@TechDesk
TSMC's 1.6nm-Class A16 Process Enters Volume Production
TSMC…TSMC headquarters, 8 Lixing 6th Road, Baoshan, Hsinchu County 30082, Taiwan
Starts 12/31/2027DELAYED12 months late67% CONFIDENCEin 1.3 yearsTSMC'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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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.

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Supreme Court Makes the TSMC 2nm Leak Sentences Final

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.

On 30 July 2026 Taiwan's Supreme Court dismissed the appeals of former TSMC engineers Chen Li-ming and Chen Wei-chieh, making their 10- and 6-year sentences final; both were already in custody and go straight to prison^[1][4].
The court's deputy criminal spokesman said it found no error in the Intellectual Property and Commercial Court's findings of fact or law and that the sentences were appropriate^[1][2].
The case covered TSMC's 2nm and 14nm process secrets and was the first verdict after the National Security Act's core-technology amendment^[1][4].
Wu Ping-chun (3 years) and Ko Yi-ping (2 years) did not appeal, and prosecutors and Tokyo Electron Taiwan did not either, so those sentences, and the company's NT$100 million to TSMC and NT$50 million to the treasury, were already final in May^[2][3][4].
Tokyo Electron employee Lu Yi-yin's appeal against her suspended 10 months for destroying evidence was still before the Supreme Court^[1][4].
Chen Li-ming's lawyer said the 10 years was unreasonable because he had confessed and settled with TSMC while Chen Wei-chieh, who did not admit the charges, got 6, and vowed to seek every remedy^[2].

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focustaiwan.tw· Posted Sep 23, 2026· Starts Jul 30, 2026 ✓· 29% of score
Focus Taiwan (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.
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台積洩密案2工程師上訴遭駁回主謀陳力銘判刑10年定讞 (PTS)
news.pts.org.tw· Published Jul 31, 2026· 24% of score
Public Television: Supreme Court deputy criminal spokesman Sung Sung-ching says the court found 'no illegality' in the lower court's findings and the sentences 'appropriate'; Wu and Ko's sentences became final in May; Chen's lawyer calls the sentence unreasonable.^[1]
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Supreme Court rejects two appeals in TSMC leak case (Taipei Times)
taipeitimes.com· Published Jul 31, 2026· 24% of score
Next-day report of the final sentences, Tokyo Electron Taiwan's suspended sentence and NT$150 million payments, and Lu's pending appeal.^[1]
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cna.com.tw· Published Jul 30, 2026· 24% of score
CNA, 30 July 2026: the Supreme Court 'today' dismissed the appeals and the 10- and 6-year sentences are final; the two, held in custody, will be sent to prison; Lu Yi-yin's appeal is still pending; the other defendants and prosecutors did not appeal.

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Semiconductors09/23/2026@LawDesk
Court Sentences Ex-TSMC Engineer to 10 Years in the 2nm Trade Secret Case
Intellectual Property and Commercial Court, 7 Xianmin Boulevard Section 2, Banqiao District, New Taipei 220, Taiwan
Starts 04/27/2026CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE149 days agoFocus Taiwan^[1] (CNA^[3][4][5]), 27 April 2026: 'A former TSMC engineer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison ... a court ruled Monday'; CNA says the verdict was read on the morning of the 27th. No time is given, so it is an all-day date.
Taiwan's Intellectual Property and Commercial Court jailed Chen Li-ming for 10 years, three TSMC engineers for 2 to 6 years, and fined Tokyo Electron's Taiwan unit NT$150 million - the first verdict under the National Security Act's core-technology clause.
NT$150M
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Semiconductors09/23/2026@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
Starts 08/27/2025CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE1.1 years agoThe 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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Semiconductors09/23/2026@TechDesk
TSMC Starts Volume Production of 2nm (N2) Chips in Kaohsiung
TSMC…TSMC Fab22 P1, 園區北路, Nanzi District, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan
Starts 12/31/2025ESTIMATED 73% CONFIDENCE266 days agoTSMC'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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Semiconductors06/21/2017@ThePinGang
In December last year TSMC started to work on its 5nm process
TSMC
Starts 03/31/2020 CONFIRMED 79% CONFIDENCE6.5 years agoHappened 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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Justice09/21/2026@LawDesk
Sam Bankman-Fried Is Sentenced to 25 Years
Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse, 500 Pearl Street, New York, NY 10007, United States
Starts 03/28/2024CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE2.5 years agoDated 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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Justice09/21/2026@LawDesk
A Houston Jury Convicts Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling
Bob Casey United States Courthouse, 515 Rusk Street, Houston, TX 77002, United States
Starts 05/25/2006CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE20.3 years agoThe 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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Semiconductors09/23/2026@TechDesk
TSMC's Second Kumamoto Fab (JASM) Starts 3nm Volume Production
TSMC…JASM, Haramizu, Kikuyo, Kikuchi County, Kumamoto Prefecture 869-1103, Japan
Starts 12/31/2028ESTIMATED12 months late71% CONFIDENCEin 2.3 yearsOnly 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.
$17B
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Law09/23/2026@LawDesk
Google and DOJ Due to File a Joint Proposed Final Judgment in Ad Tech Case
Albert V. Bryan United States Courthouse, 401 Courthouse Square, Alexandria, VA 22314, United StatesGoogle…
Starts 10/02/2026SCHEDULED 86% CONFIDENCEin 9 daysThe court's 2 September 2026 order (ECF 1857) directs the parties to "file one jointly proposed Final Judgment" "within 30 days of the date of this Order", which falls on 2 October 2026, and AdExchanger^[1] reports "Both parties have until October 2 to submit their proposed final judgments".
Google and the Justice Department must file one jointly proposed Final Judgment in the ad tech antitrust case by 2 October 2026, writing Judge Brinkema's behavioral remedies into an order that takes effect 60 days after she enters it.
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Semiconductors09/23/2026@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
Starts 01/15/2026CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE251 days agoCNBC^[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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Semiconductors09/23/2026@TechDesk
TSMC's Third Arizona Fab Starts Volume Production on N2 and A16
TSMC…P3, TSMC Arizona Fab 21, F Road, North Gateway, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona 85085, United States
Starts 12/31/2029ESTIMATED 58% CONFIDENCEin 3.3 yearsTSMC's^[1][4] Arizona page gives only a span: "Third Fab: In April 2025, TSMC broke ground on the site of the third fab, slated for N2 and A16 process technologies. Targeting volume production by the end of the decade." - so the decade's last day, estimated.
The third fab on TSMC's north Phoenix campus, where ground was broken in April 2025, is slated for its 2nm (N2) and A16 processes and targeted for volume production by the end of the decade - the most advanced chipmaking TSMC has committed to the United States.
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Semiconductors09/23/2026@TechDesk
TSMC Q2 2026 Results: Record $40.2B Revenue, Capex Raised to $60-64B
TSMC…Mandarin Oriental Taipei, 158 Dunhua North Road, Songshan District, Taipei 10548, Taiwan
Starts 07/16/2026 6:00AMCONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE69 days agoTSMC's^[1][2] release, datelined "HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C., Jul. 16, 2026", says TSMC "today announced" its second-quarter results, and the call transcript TSMC posts gives "EVENT DATE/TIME: JULY 16, 2026 / 6:00AM GMT" (2 p.m. Taiwan time, as the FTNN report of TSMC's schedule says: "16日下午2時").
TSMC reported second-quarter revenue of US$40.20 billion, up 33.7% from a year earlier, a 67.7% gross margin and record net income of NT$706.56 billion, guided Q3 revenue to US$44.6-45.8 billion and raised its 2026 capital budget to US$60-64 billion.
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Semiconductors09/23/2026@TechDesk
TSMC's 1.6nm-Class A16 Process Enters Volume Production
TSMC…TSMC headquarters, 8 Lixing 6th Road, Baoshan, Hsinchu County 30082, Taiwan
Starts 12/31/2027DELAYED12 months late67% CONFIDENCEin 1.3 yearsTSMC'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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