00:00Tokyo Electron Taiwan says it will not appeal a Taiwanese court ruling in a trade secrets case involving TSMC.
00:07A Taiwan court fined the Japanese chip equipment maker's Taiwanese branch nearly US$5 million in April
00:14and sentenced five people to up to 10 years in prison for stealing trade secrets from TSMC.
00:21It concluded that a Tokyo Electron employee that previously worked for TSMC
00:26recruited former employees to acquire sensitive chip technology.
00:31Tokyo Electron Taiwan says it respects the judicial process and takes the ruling seriously.
00:38The case has drawn widespread attention in Taiwan,
00:41raising concerns over protecting the country's semiconductor industry and key technologies.
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