The chip industry serves as a strategic pillar for the digital economy and national security, and trade secrets play a crucial role in the protection of its implicit technologies. This study points out that trade secrets are not only a key means for chip enterprises to achieve technological breakthroughs and differentiated competition, but also an important driving force for the accelerated upgrading and leapfrog development of the chip industry. Currently, the protection of trade secrets in chip technology faces such dilemmas as inadequate confidentiality measures in enterprises, imperfect judicial authentication mechanisms, and insufficient effectiveness of administrative protection. The study proposes optimized paths, including establishing a full-process confidentiality management system for enterprises, improving the judicial authentication mechanism, and enhancing the effectiveness of administrative protection. It aims to provide theoretical and practical references for building a trade secret protection system that adapts to the development of the chip industry.