Taiwanese authorities have opened a national- data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/security” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/security”>security-related inquiry involving a former TSMC R&D executive who may have passed the company’s trade secrets to a foreign company. The person in question is Wei-Jen Lo, according to a spokesperson for the High Prosecutors Office, who spoke to data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/taiwan-prosecutors-probe-ex-tsmc-exec-over-possible-security-law-breach” data-url=”https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/taiwan-prosecutors-probe-ex-tsmc-exec-over-possible-security-law-breach” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>Nikkei Asia. Yet, for now the investigation is focused on finding out whether there was an intentional or unlawful transfer of TSMC’s trade secrets to a foreign entity.
Wei-Jen Lo, a long-time executive at TSMC and…
