TOKYO (Reuters) -Tokyo Electron has not confirmed any organisational involvement following the indictment of a former employee in Taiwan for alleged theft of trade secrets from TSMC, the Japanese chipmaking equipment maker said on Thursday.

Taiwan prosecutors said on Wednesday that they had indicted three people in the TSMC trade secrets case, accusing them of conspiring to use the information to help Tokyo Electron compete for TSMC supplier deals for the 2-nanometer process.

The defendants included a former TSMC employee, surnamed Chen, who after joining Tokyo Electron had solicited help from his former colleagues for the information on TSMC’s technology trade secrets, the prosecutors said.

Tokyo Electron said its investigation has “not confirmed any organisational involvement, such as

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