China’s First Digital Signal Processor Microchip a Fake
A top Chinese academic has been fired after it emerged he faked research into computer chips that aimed at ending the nation’s reliance on foreign suppliers. Touted as China’s first successful proprietary Digital Signal Processor (DSP), the Hanxin No.1, was publicly unveiled in February 2003. The fake processor got the government to pay out 10 billion yuan (US$1.2 billion) in research subsidies. Someone is going to jail for a long time!
According to reports, Mr Chen used chips made by another firm to fool university and government inspectors. China’s Xinhua state news agency said that the Hanxin digital signal processing chips were not based on research carried out by Mr Chen. Nor could the chips carry out the functions, such as reading fingerprints or playing MP3 files, that they were supposed to, it reported.
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