Judge Chang Ming-huang sentenced former TSMC engineer Chen Li-ming to ten years for stealing 2-nanometer trade secrets, and Tokyo Electron Taiwan was fined NT$150 million under Taiwan's amended National Security Act. Meanwhile, Taiwan's AI Basic Act, promulgated January 14, 2026, imposes no penalties on private-sector violators. Taipei prosecutes semiconductor theft aggressively but treats AI governance as voluntary direction, leaving substantive AI chip rules to ongoing export-control negotiations with Washington.
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