TSMC Leakage Case Sentenced, TSMC Insider Engineer Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison.

On April 27, according to Bloomberg, a court in Taiwan, China ruled on Monday that former TSMC engineer Chen Liming was sentenced to 10 years in prison for stealing proprietary data from TSMC. According to Taiwan media reports, the Intellectual Property and Commercial Court in Taiwan, China issued a first-instance judgment on the "mole case" at TSMC on Monday, involving four former and current employees of TSMC, as well as a female supervisor of Japan's Tokyo Power Chip Technology. The main culprit, former TSMC engineer Chen Liming, was sentenced to 10 years in prison; accomplices Wu Bingjun, Yi Yiping, and Chen Weijie were sentenced to 3 years, 2 years, and 6 years in prison respectively. Tokyo Power Chip Technology supervisor Lu Yiyin was sentenced to 10 months in prison with a 3-year probation. Tokyo Power Chip Technology was fined 150 million New Taiwan Dollars. This case can be appealed.