Former TSMC employee sentenced to 10 years for stealing and leaking trade secrets
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台北時報
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Summary
Former TSMC employee Chen Li-ming and accomplices were sentenced to up to 10 years in prison for leaking trade secrets to competitors. Chen, who worked in TSMC's yield engineering unit, joined Tokyo Electron Taiwan's marketing division after leaving the chipmaker and was found guilty of stealing and sharing proprietary semiconductor manufacturing information. The case highlights Taiwan's efforts to protect its critical semiconductor industry from intellectual property theft.
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Offenders sentenced up to 10 years for spying on TSMC
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