Offenders sentenced up to 10 years for spying on TSMC

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...