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SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT:
Invention of China's Homegrown DSP Chip Dismissed as a Hoax
Hao Xin
In a major embarrassment for China's national electronics R&D program, an inventor's claim to have created a series of homegrown computer chips has been declared a fraud. After a months-long investigation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) announced on 12 May that it found "serious falsification and deception in the research and development of the Hanxin series of chips led by [SJTU dean] Chen Jin." The university announced that Chen had been dismissed. Chen did not respond to telephone or e-mail messages.
Chen won national acclaim in February 2003 when he unveiled what he described as the first digital signal processor (DSP) chip designed and manufactured in China, called Hanxin-1 or "Chinese chip." He quickly followed with two improved designs and promised a fourth and fifth generation with both a DSP and a central processing unit. The 37-year-old inventor built his career on aiming, as he told a reporter, "to put the label 'Made in China' on high-end computer chips."
With a 1998 Ph.D. in computer engineering from the University of Texas, Austin, Chen spent a short stint as a test engineer at Motorola Semiconductor Product Sector in Texas, now called Freescale Semiconductor, and returned to China in 2000. At SJTU, Chen embarked on a road to take back China's DSP market shares. In less than 2 years, he managed to set up an integrated-circuit design lab and had a product ready.
Government and academic leaders embraced the inventions. Chen was appointed dean of SJTU's newly established School of Microelectronics; he founded the company SJTU HISYS Technology Ltd. and became its CEO. More than $7 million in public R&D funds poured in. The Shanghai government named Chen CEO of Shanghai Silicon Intellectual Property Exchange, a platform established in 2003 with $3.75 million in municipal funds for trading semiconductor rights.
But on 17 January, an anonymous posting on a Chinese Web site presented evidence alleging that the project was a fraud. The tipster claimed that Chen had purchased 10 Motorola DSP chips in August 2002 and had the original logo sanded off and replaced with HISYS and SJTU labels. According to the allegations, Chen promoted the chips as his Hanxin-1 design and later passed off other derivative products as his own inventions.
HISYS Technology issued a statement on 21 January calling the allegations "pure fabrication." However, 5 days later, SJTU issued a statement expressing concern over the alleged fraud and announcing that the university had asked national ministries and the Shanghai government to help investigate.
The investigation was organized by China's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)--a major investor in the project--the Ministry of Education, and the Shanghai government. An expert team interviewed Chen, the still-anonymous Internet tipster or tipsters, and others. It inspected and compared technical documents on site and checked the design and process specifications of Hanxin chips 1 through 4.
Before the fall. Microelectronics wizard Chen Jin with his chip at a press conference in February 2003.
CREDIT: AP PHOTO
Last week, SJTU released the team's findings: The device Chen had displayed as Hanxin-1 at a press conference in 2003 was not the one that had been submitted for evaluation; instead, Chen substituted another chip that his lab did not design. SJTU's report also said that Chen did not own the "core technology" of other chips that he claimed. Chen, the report said, "used false results to cheat evaluation experts, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, his research team, local government, ministries of the central government, as well as the media and the public," but the report does not say how the evaluation experts were cheated. MOST terminated Chen's ministry-funded projects and asked him to return the research funds.
Chen appears to be moving on to other ventures. At a low-key news conference last month, he announced that HISYS Technology--now severed from the university--is forming an alliance with Skyworks Shanghai to develop products for the mobile phone market.