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Focus Taiwan (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.
Next-day front page with the same sentences, the court's news conference in New Taipei and the first-corporate-defendant point; says the ruling can be appealed.[1]
CNA's[4][5] court report: the Intellectual Property and Commercial Court 'today' sentenced Chen Li-ming to 10 years, Wu and Ko to 3 and 2, Chen Wei-chieh to 6, Lu Yi-yin to a suspended 10 months, and fined Tokyo Electron Taiwan NT$150 million, suspended on paying NT$100 million to TSMC and NT$50 million to the treasury.
TSMC's response to the verdict: zero tolerance for trade secret violations, and the ruling means its trade secrets and technology are 'fully protected'.[1]
Tokyo Electron's statement on the NT$150 million fine: no organisational involvement and no leak of the information found, and it takes the finding that its Taiwan unit failed to supervise the former employee 'extremely seriously'.[1]
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