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Title: Japanese Company Staff Implicated In Alleged Theft of Key TSMC
Technology

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/08/23352...

hackingbear shares a report from CNN: Taiwanese authorities have detained
three current and former employees of the world's largest chip manufacturer,
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), for allegedly stealing
trade secrets [and taking them to Japanese company Tokyo Electrons],
prosecutors said Tuesday. Law enforcement officers questioned several
suspects and witnesses late last month. They searched their homes and
detained three of them over "serious suspicions of violating national
security laws," the intellectual property branch of the Taiwan High
Prosecutors Office said on Tuesday. After an internal investigation, the
major Taiwanese exporter raised suspicions with authorities that its "core
technologies" may have been illegally accessed by former and current
staffers. Nikkei Asia first reported on Tuesday that TSMC had fired staffers
suspected of illegally obtaining business secrets related to the
manufacturing technology for the company's 2-nanometer chip, the most
advanced processor in the semiconductor industry that is expected to go into
mass production this year. Taiwanese local media reported that a former TSMC
employee now works at top chip manufacturing equipment supplier Tokyo
Electron Ltd., and that the Japanese firm's Taiwan office was raided by
investigators. On Thursday, Tokyo Electron confirmed it had dismissed an
employee of its Taiwan subsidiary who was involved in the case, and said the
company was cooperating with authorities. "As of now, based upon the findings
of our internal investigation we have not confirmed any evidence of the
respective confidential information shared to any third parties," it said in
a statement.

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