Taiwanese prosecutors have charged the Japanese semiconductor company Tokyo Electron with failing to prevent its staff from allegedly attempting to steal trade secrets from cutting-edge silicon wafer firm TSMC, as reported by data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-02/taiwan-charges-tokyo-electron-in-tsmc-secrets-theft-case” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-02/taiwan-charges-tokyo-electron-in-tsmc-secrets-theft-case” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>Bloomberg. The prosecutors are targeting Tokyo Electron with charges of violating business secrets and 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 laws, and are seeking a fine for its failings.
Although they stopped short of claiming that Tokyo Electron had made use of the proprietary technologies that its…
