NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan – A ⁠Taiwanese court fined the local unit of Japan's Tokyo Electron 150 million New Taiwan dollars ($5 million) in a trade secrets case on Monday, ​handing jail terms of up ‌to 10 ‌years to five defendants ​for alleged theft of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) sensitive chip technology. The ruling follows one of ⁠Taiwan's highest profile cases of alleged breaches of ⁠national core technologies, involving charges under the National Security ​Act. In August 2025, ⁠prosecutors indicted Chen Li-ming, a former TSMC and Tokyo ⁠Electron employee, ​of unlawfully obtaining the trade secrets, ​along with other defendants, ​in ‌a bid to help Tokyo Electron win more equipment orders from TSMC. Chen was sentenced to 10 years ‌in prison, with three other former employees of the world's biggest contract manufacturer of advanced artificial intelligence chips getting terms ​ranging ​from two to six years.…