Ex-Tokyo Electron employee sentenced to 10 years, with four other defendants getting between 10 months and six years. A court in Taiwan has fined the local unit of Japan’s Tokyo Electron $5m, and sentenced five defendants to jail terms of up to 10 years, in a high-profile trade secrets case involving chipmaker TSMC. The ruling follows one of Taiwan’s most prominent cases related to the island’s core technologies, involving the alleged theft of TSMC’s sensitive computer chip technology and charges under the National Security Act. Recommended Stories list of 4 items list 1 of 4 Video: Israeli ‘ceasefire’ violations on the rise in Gaza list 2 of 4 Iran’s foreign minister leaves Pakistan, heads to Russia for more talks list 3 of 4 Oil prices rise amid stalled US-Iran peace talks list 4 of 4 Satellite images show scale of Israeli destruction of south Lebanon towns end of list In August 2025, prosecutors indicted Chen Li-ming, a former TSMC and Tokyo Electron employee, on suspicion of unlawfully obtaining trade…