NEW TAIPEI, Taiwan, April 27 (Reuters) – A Taiwan court on Monday fined the local unit of Japan’s Tokyo Electron T$150 million ($4.78 million) and sentenced defendants to up to 10 years in jail in a trade secrets case involving the alleged theft of TSMC’s sensitive chip technology.
The ruling marks one of Taiwan’s most high-profile cases involving alleged breaches of national core technologies, after prosecutors charged Tokyo Electron’s Taiwan unit under the National Security Act.
($1 = 31.4110 Taiwan dollars)
(Reporting by Wen-Yee Lee; Writing by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)
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