NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan (AP) \u2014 A court in Taiwan sentenced a former employee of Japanese computer chip equipment maker Tokyo Electron to 10 years in prison on Monday in a landmark case over trade secrets of the island\u2019s leading chipmaker TSMC.<\/p>\n
Tokyo Electron was also fined 150 million new Taiwan dollars ($5 million) and four other people were sentenced to up to six years in jail.<\/p>\n
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