Offenders sentenced up to 10 years for spying on TSMC

Offenders sentenced up to 10 years for spying on TSMC

LEAKING TRADE SECRETS: Chen Li-ming, who previously worked in a yield engineering unit at TSMC, joined Tokyo Electron Taiwan’s marketing division after leaving the chipmaker

Staff writer, with CNA

A former Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) engineer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in leaking trade secrets involving the company’s advanced 2-nanometer process, a court ruled yesterday.

The Intellectual Property and Commercial Court found Chen Li-ming (陳力銘) guilty of contraventing the National Security Act (國家安全法), and of other offenses related to the unauthorized acquisition and the use of Taiwan’s “national core key technologies.”

The ruling can be appealed.

Intellectual Property and Commercial Court judge Chang Ming-Huang speaks at a news conference in New Taipei City yesterday. Photo: CNA

The case is the first involving a corporate entity under the National Security Act.

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