TSMC leak case: Two former engineers involved in the case were sentenced to 10 years and 6 years respectively

On July 30, according to market news, Taiwan's "Intellectual Property and Commercial Court" sentenced Chen Liming, Wu Bingjun, Ge Yiping, and Chen Weijie to 10 years in prison for stealing and leaking confidential data such as 2 nanometers. Chen Liming and Chen Weijie filed an appeal, and Taiwan's "Supreme Court" rejected the appeal on the 30th. The two will be directly sent to prison for execution. According to the news, Wu Bingjun and Ge Yiping did not appeal after the court's first-instance judgment, and the prosecution did not appeal, so the sentence was determined first. Chen Liming was originally a yield engineer at TSMC Plant 12. After leaving the company, he was transferred to TSMC semiconductor manufacturing equipment supplier and the marketing department of Taiwan's "Tokyo Weili". In order to strive for performance and win Tokyo Weili's equipment suppliers for more stations on TSMC's advanced process, he repeatedly used his old friendship with colleagues such as Wu, Ge, Chen and others to request three people to remake TSMC's confidential files. Four engineers used the official laptops of the engineers involved in the case who were still working to open confidential files for Chen Liming to remake, or remake and send them to Chen Liming.