Court Sentences Ex-TSMC Engineer to 10 Years in the 2nm Trade Secret Case
確定確度 87%Focus 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.
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