FILE PHOTO: The TSMC logo is displayed on a building in Hsinchu, Taiwan, April 15, 2025. REUTERS/Ann Wang/File Photo
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan prosecutors said on Wednesday that they indicted three people for theft of trade secrets from chipmaker TSMC, accusing them of conspiring to use the information to help Japan’s Tokyo Electron in competing for TSMC supplier deals for the 2-nanometerprocess.
The three defendants included a formerTSMC employee,surnamed Chen, who after joining chipmaking tools supplier Tokyo Electron had allegedly solicited help from his former colleagues for the information on TSMC’s technology trade secret, the prosecutors said.
