In that year, Chen used only one piece of sandpaper to steal 1.1 billion dollars in research.
As a result, the development of Chinese chips has stalled for 13 years.
This thing we started in 2003.
(i)
26 February, Jinjiang Chapel, Shanghai.
Here, a press conference is being held, which is considered to be “a change in China’s technological fate”.
This title, if you put it right now, is probably just an attraction.
At that time, however, the press conference had its true weight.
First of all, Jinjiang Xiao Hall is one of Shanghai’s most famous halls, where the 1972 China-United States joint communiqué was published.
Second, the launch was hosted by the Shanghai City Press Office.
It is not simple for those who attended the press conference – the Director of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Information Technology, the Deputy Mayor of Shanghai, the Head of the Shanghai Commission for Science and Technology, and the team of experts from a number of middle school students and the heads of the 863 project.
Their main task is the professional validation of the chips to be released.
In front of the conference, it was a giant blue curtain with the theme of the launch:
High-end DSP digital signal processing chip press conference in Shanghai.
Hanchurch One.
A 32-bit DSP digital processing chip using an internationally advanced 0.18 micro-process.
The researcher is Chen Jin, Director of the Shanghai Centre for Research on Large Chips and Systems.
Here, the DSP and the Computer CPU are two of the core technologies of the chip industry, which are very widely used in bluetooth technology, third generation wireless communication and graphic processing.
At that time, only a few developed countries had developed DSP R & D technologies.
So, as soon as news of the success of Hanchurch One came out, the country was blown up.
Soon, the launch officially began.
A handsome young man came to the podium gently and smiled and picked up his microphone.
He was wearing a fine and able suit, and Phnom Penh glasses were full of the wisdom of the scholars and looked like the host of the news office.
He’s the leader of a 35-year-old research and development team, Hanchurch One.
At that point, the audience was surprised.
They have no idea how young this “Tianjin” who has contributed so much to the development of Chinese chips!
There is no progress on the stage that is as modest and shy as it is imagined, nor is there a book unique to scholars angry.
He’s more like a self-luminant entrepreneur.
First, he respectfully thanked you for your efforts, and then he started to say a lot about his own “Hanchurch One.”
Chen Jin and Han Chia One
Chen is proud to introduce to the participants the key parameters of the Hanchurch One and occasionally to describe the difficulties he and his team have experienced in developing Hanchurch One.
Every time he comes here, his voice is a little stingy, and the people below the stage are disfigured.
Most of the experts here understand the pain of developing the chip.
After the presentation of Han core 1, he took out another MP3 with this high-end chip and showed it to you.
With MP3 running successfully, there was a wave of applause in the auditorium.
After that, Chen was able to speak with confidence about Hanchurch One in front of a row of media footage.
It is strange, however, that when journalists tried to pull up the camera and film the details of the chip, Chen moved down a small step backwards.
At the time, however, no one cared too much.
After all, Hanchurch One is now the “baby” of the Chinese chip community, and it should be protected.
When the launch was nearing its end, the leaders and experts under the podium were already crying.
As they all know, this little chip has gathered too many expectations.
After the twenty-first century, China’s chip industry was lagging behind, and it was in ruins.
Our integrated circuit research has also just begun, and there is a lack of technological giants such as Intel, IBM and Motorola.
So, in the area of chips, the gap between my country and the developed countries of Europe and the United States is very clear.
In particular, as a result of the increased demand for technology in various fields, the chips became “kids”.
At that time, the DSP chip technology was global, but only a few developed countries had research and development capabilities.
Our chips are almost entirely imported.
It is undeniable that chips are just needed for any country, and if they are not mastered of this core technology, they are at risk of being “calculated”.
So, after entering the twenty-first century, we have supported the development of the chip industry at all costs.
It’s just in this big environment that Chen-jin appears.
As a “chip genius,” he developed the “high 16-bit DSP chip” in less than a year.
You know, the DSP 56800E chip was developed by Motorola in the United States for three years, with hundreds of engineers involved in it, and more than 10 late chips (also called trial production).
So, when news of the success of Hanchurch One came out, the voice of the doubt spread.
But soon, the Shanghai launch convinced all those who questioned it.
On that day, the Group reached an important conclusion — Hanchurch One was the first of its kind in the country, reaching an advanced international level and an important milestone in the history of Chinese chip development!
This highly authoritative assessment has completely dispelled the doubts of the outside world about Hanchurch One and further advanced young Chen to the altar.
(ii)
After the launch, Chen became the “star” of the scientific community.
His “pretty background” was also dug up by the journalistic media and displayed in front of the public.
Chen received a bachelor’s degree from Toji University, followed by a master’s degree in computer engineering and a doctorate from Texas University in 1994 and 1997.
Even now in the country, this is a “sampling” background, not to mention in the 1990s, when people were desperately in need.
Dr. Chen did not return to China immediately after graduation.
Instead, it took over the semiconductor headquarters in Motorola, United States, and became a senior director engineer and chip design manager.
It is well known that Motorola is an old American technology giant.
When my country was still in the war of liberation, the company was already involved in the communications industry, with the world of technological power leading.
It is this same curriculum vitae at Motorola that paves the way for Chen’s return to the country.
Chen went back to the country in 2001.
Dr. Haiji, as rare as Chen, is also entrusted with the task.
In 2002, Shanghai University of Transport dropped an olive branch on him early in the day, setting up a centre for the study of chips and systems for him, employing Chen Jing as Director of the Centre for Research and also as the master designer of the Hanchip project.
Resources such as talent, projects, teams, funds, equipment, etc. should be made available.
China’s own production of chips seems to be only a matter of time, and everything is ready for work.
Soon, the moment of success has arrived.
On February 26, 2003, the first launch of the Hanchip project, Hanchip One, was launched in Shanghai.
When the media spotlight was focused on this talented young man, everything was so unexpected and incredible.
This is going too fast.
But it’s not just Hanchurch One.
In January 2004, less than a year after the launch of Hanchurch 1, Hanchurch II and III were born.
One is a 24-bit DSP chip and the other is a 32-bit DSP chip with central processor functionality.
The four-year plan, as previously foreseen, has already been exceeded.
Chen, however, has become a very popular figure in integrated circuits throughout the country.
After that, a wave of honor was crowned on the head:
Shanghai City Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Master ‘ s Name.
In addition, Chen is also the CEO of the Shanghai Silicon Intellectual Property Centre, the Managing Director of Shanghai-Handshang Chip Technologies Ltd. and the Managing Director of Shanghai-Chat-Technology Ltd.
He was predicted to be in the position of a Chinese engineer, and he was given “the lead of the Chinese chip”.
Chen has always laughed and waved at this statement, showing sufficient humility and caution.
Almost everyone here believes that young Chen is the one who changed the development of the Chinese chip.
However, in the forest, the wind must be destroyed.
Some of those who know can’t watch.
(iii)
On January 17, 2006, three years after the launch of Hanchurch I.
On that day, a mysterious whistleblower published a post on the BBS of the University of Qinghua, Hanchurch.
In the post, the mystery man claimed that Chen had used the fake Hanchurch One to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from the country and revealed many unknown details and links to the Hanchurch One development process.
Mystics are also very good at squeezing the media and the public, and the story is not one-sided.
He first blew up Chen’s foreign resume.
Chen was a chip design manager at Motorola.
But actually, it’s fake.
Chen Jin did work for Motorola, but the job was a “chip test”.
This is evidenced by the doctoral thesis of Chen.
After the post came out, there was a journalist on the North American Master’s Thesis Library website who extracted a doctoral thesis from Chen, Modeling and Testing the Fault of Simulation and Mixed Circuits.
As mystics say, the direction of the paper is mainly “testing techniques” related to chip design.
You know, scientific research is an extremely subdivided area.
While there is some correlation between chip testing and chip design, the theory and direction of research is completely different.
A Ph.D. student in chip testing techniques, but a chip design manager.
This is hardly self-defeating, as is often seen.
It is clear that Chen’s curriculum vitae, if it says “test engineer” as it is, may not be thrown out of the olive branch by Shanghai.
In my country at the time, what was the most attractive term and better understood than anyone.
So before returning home, he came up with a two-pronged approach — blurring the course of academic research and falsifying the curriculum vitae.
And I learned a couple of months about the design of the chip and some of the “professional terms.”
However, chip development is not as simple as a validation theory, but it must produce tangible results.
It’s natural for Chen to understand that.
He knew that packaging himself was not enough, and it was the real “power” that was the key.
Chen went on a flight home in 2001.
At that time, he had received a large contract of employment from Shanghai, which was well-valued.
There are also hundreds of millions of yuan in State funding for research projects.
So, how do we do that next?
Looking at that line of money like a phone number, he came up with an excellent solution.
And that’s the second story the mystery man released.
(iv)
In Chen Jin’s elaborate layout, Hanchurch One was successful in less than a year.
According to the release, the Hanchip series products had entered the international market and received orders for over a million pieces.
With these orders alone, the future market prospects for Hanchurch should be bright.
It is strange, however, that by the end of the mysterious post (7 January 2006), the million-dollar order for Hanchip One was missing.
In other words, the Han core series has not been industrialized.
As is well known, the chip design industry is changing.
An internationally advanced DSP chip would face phase-out if it was not industrialized after three years.
Why, then, did Chen and his Hanchurch technology give up such a unique offer?
Why did a self-developed chip claim to have received over a million orders three years ago and never produced it?
Isn’t there something greasy about it?
Following this line, the mystery man broke a big secret.
In March 2002, the Hanchip Laboratory was inaugurated.
As a follow-up, Chen moved quickly to form the core technical staff, complete the planning exercise and start designing the new source code…
However, mysticals claim that there is no “Hanchurch Team”.
In 2002, Chen had three assistants:
A Ph.D. in the structure of the Haji microprocessor system, called Fu Woo-chul;
One named Chen Yong, a major North graduate;
There is also this mysterious man whose name has not yet been revealed.
In addition to this, there are a number of master ‘ s and doctoral students who have been brought up.
However, the most embarrassing of these is that none of these people knows how to develop a chip.
In other words, all these people are outsiders.
But it does not prevent Chen’s “salary increase” and his future remains bright and bright.
Also in 2002, the “Chip and Systems Research Centre” was established in Shanghai, where Chen became the Director of the Centre.
Those who have come into contact with official documents know that the naming of such major projects is very detailed.
The words “chips” and “systems” are more important than the one in front.
It is clear that Shanghai had more to do with a breakthrough in the chip.
Soon, however, Chen sent a satisfactory response to the birth of Hanchurch One.
When the research centre was founded, Chen made a four-year plan:
One or two years of bedtime.
The third year was an amazing one.
In the fourth year, Heinawakawa, Peng Tsimchi.
In less than a year, this four-person team, which doesn’t know how to chip, created Hanchip One.
So, how did they make the international leader Hanchurch One?
How did you pass the Panel’s test?
In fact, it also benefited from Chen Jing’s old company, Motorola.
Chen knows very well that it is impossible to design a DSP chip for himself and his team.
But without chips, you can’t get the money.
So, in 2002, Chen took advantage of a trip to the United States, where his friends who worked with Motorola downloaded the source code of the DSP56800E chip from the Motorola workstation.
It was with this source code that Chen became the real Hulk One.
But after all, unprofessional people, the chips that are produced are necessarily unprofessional, and there is no way to get them to the expert group.
In the absence of an IP (core intellectual property) module to access the chip debugging interface, even when the source code is available, the chip is designed to be useless and unable to interact with humans.
As a result, no system application of the chip could be performed by the outside world.
What do we do?
If you want to see Hanchurch One at the launch, you don’t know if it’s really Hanchurch One.
A “mixery” in Chen’s heart.
(v)
It’s all going on in the plan.
Chen asked his brother to purchase Motorola dsp56858 chips from the United States in August 2002.
In October 2002, Chen received 10 chips from floating across the sea.
This chip is completely different from the source-coded “Hancore 1” chip.
How can we combine them?
Just as Chen became unattainable, a decorator appeared in front of him.
At that point, the decorating master was grinding sandpapers, rubbing the stains on the walls, and the sound of a stinging ear was striking.
And suddenly, Chen had an idea.
If you grind down the logo on the Motorola chip and then mark the Han core, can’t you just fake it?
At the press conference, who can tell if Hanchip One is real or not?
Just say it.
Chen immediately found the decorator and finalized the details of the chip, and the price was negotiated.
The next day, 10 small black pieces came to Chen’s hand.
Motorola’s logo is gone, the chip surface is very smooth, and the master’s work is extraordinary.
Then Chen went to an imprint company.
On these chips, he put the words “Hanchurch eDSP33200” and “Shanghai Tsai”.
I can’t help but look at the results of the research I’ve been working so hard on.
This modified chip is the chip that was presented in hand at the Hanchip One launch.
That is to say, the Chinese are proud of the national chip, which is just a new Motorola chip.
But it is even more ironic that this chip, which is completely different from the real “Hanchurch One” size, can easily pass through the Group’s identification.
The mastermind who crossed the sea without telling the truth has been taken to be the hero of the nation and the leader of technology.
Who would have thought that? I can’t believe it’s being used in modern times, in Chinese chips.
However, the mystery man only named Hanchurch One in its original form as Motorola.
But it is not known that the important role of the “decorator” exists.
So, who dug up Chen Jin’s “Hanchurch One through the decorator”?
This man is familiar with the ark.
When he told the public the truth about the chip, the country blew up.
But it’s over.
The most heavy hammer is usually released on the axis.
(vi)
In the area of integrated circuit design, the concept of “flow film” is not uncommon.
In general, after the electrical circuits were designed, the gentleman produced several or dozens for testing.
If the test is passed, large-scale production will begin in accordance with the procedure and technical indicators.
So, as a “test production” streaming program, it is a prerequisite for determining whether the chip will win the industry.
Following the birth of Hanchip One, the flow of the chip was carried out by Chinachip International to ensure that it was made in China with the original juice.
Paradoxically, however, the mystery man showed the “other contract” for the project.
The contract was signed on 5 November 2002.
One is an American company called Ensoc, and the other is the Shanghai University of Transportation’s Chip and Systems Research Center.
The persons responsible for signing the contract were Chen Jin and the President of Ensoc Company, Robin Liu.
The contract made it clear that Ensoc Company would be responsible for providing the research centre with a flow of film services overseas for Hanchip One.
The cost of this offshore film service is fully covered by Shanghai.
In other words, Chen claims to be a national center-chip international, while behind the back is entrusted to a foreign company, Ensoc.
A chip, two sets of fluids, what’s in this jar?
Even more suspicious is the fact that this foreign company is actually “cheap” for the project.
According to the details of the mysterious man:
On January 15, 2003, the company issued a drop-in service price of 15 slides for $35080.
What’s the concept of $35080 for a chip stream?
According to industry estimates, this price is $17,000 lower than the lowest price in the industry.
Moreover, the industry has only estimated the cost of the streaming film, and in the contract signed by the parties on 5 November 2002, Ensoc will also provide services such as product-level testing and systems development boards.
If the cost of these services is added, the difference between Ensoc fees and actual costs will be increased.
Is it really cheap to have such an unreasonable flow price?
With this question, a journalist went to dig up this Ensoc company.
The result was a shock.
This company, registered on May 22, 2002, is not registered to anyone else.
It’s Chen Jin himself!
Turns out there’s no one called Ensoc.
Even the American drift claimed in the secret contract was a cover-up.
In other words, both A and B parties to the contract are in fact Chen Jian, who paid for the project in Shanghai, and directly relied on his own Ensoc collection certificate to pay for it in Shanghai.
Shanghai paid for the services paid for by Hanchip One, through Ensoc all fell into Chen’s pocket.
Chen is a tech genius. He looks more like a business fraud.
But, of course, $35,000 won’t satisfy Chen’s appetite.
Also in May 2003, under the name of Ensoc, Chen made a more valuable deal with one of Taiwan’s designers, a chip called Weschen Electronics.
Chen sold the source code that Chen stole from Motorola, the source code Hanchurch One, for 500,000 dollars to Weschen Electronics.
The $500,000 is naturally also in Ensoc’s account, which is in his pocket.
At this time, Chen Jin has long been in awe.
And the mysterious man who was exposed, when he joined the team after reminiscent of the “practical” approach, found out that he was a big liar.
He said to the journalists, “The people who have reported in China since time immemorial are considered informants and have nothing to do with it. But I would still choose to do it. I’m sorry.
It was not until the post of Han’s Black Curtain was made public, that this chip cheater and the Chinese chip project were completely uncovered, and all the praises turned into spats.
At the same time, the way out of the national chip was once again blocked.
After the truth had surfaced, Chen was relieved of all duties by Shanghai Hand in Hand, and the costs were recovered.
The State completely suspended the funding support for the chip project, which affected the entire semiconductor industry.
However, such gimmicks have not received any criminal punishment.
The more popular public opinion is, the more silent the chip industry is, the more a large number of chip research projects have been forced to stop with half-funding.
Since then, the Chinese chip industry has been in decline.
(vii)
At the time, there was a project called the Dragon Chip.
It’s a chip development group in a central school computer that doesn’t have a huge hake, but bites his teeth for research in the absence of people and money.
By 2006, the group had developed the Dragon core 2 generation.
Although there is still a huge gap between technology and the United States, there has been some progress, with 50 per cent performance of Intel CPU over the same period.
However, when the Han core incident came to light, the dragon core also suffered.
In the eyes of the public, all the Chinese cores are the kind of money that goes around.
There are even people who have made up their mouths — Han, Dragon, Chinese, cores.
This hit the core team hard.
As a result of this public opinion, government funds were cut off, investment was withdrawn and the Dragon core project was put on hold for a short time.
You know, chip development is very “burn money.”
Otherwise, Chen will not be able to make a false impression, and the billions of dollars that have been spent on it will challenge the hearts of every researcher.
But not everyone is Chen.
At a time when the project was at risk, the team leader had made an advance from the computer and was determined to develop the core.
Until 2010, the National Chip Support Fund was allocated.
At that time, the core team had advanced $8 million from the computer facility.
Kung Fu has no heart.
On March 31, 2015, China launched the first Beidou satellite with a “long core”.
On December 24, 2019, the Dragon core 3A40000/3B4000 was launched in Beijing, using the same 28nm process as the previous generation, resulting in multiplication of performance through design optimization.
In April 2021, Loongson Architecture adopted the assessment of the country ‘ s third-party leading intellectual property assessment body.
But is the Hanchurch incident over?
Not at all.
There’s plenty of people around.
In Wuhan Airport Economic Development Zone, there is a derelict tailing factory far from the city.
A 390,000 square metre complex has presented an ambitious profile on the poster, but that is all.
Who would have thought that it was the Wuhan Hongchon Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., which had a total investment of 12.8 billion yuan.
In November 2017, Wuhan Hongchon Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd. was formally established.
As a high-tech chip project in Wuhan City, Hiroki was born with a desire to contrast the build-up of the marker and the Tristar, and to position himself in the third place of the global chip.
In terms of financing, it is cost-neutral, with first-stage investments of 52 billion, second-stage investments of 76 billion and two-phase investments of 128 billion yuan.
This vortex, built with money and backed by technical and large numbers of semiconductors, should have been the dawn of a national chip.
However, that was not the case.
As a result of the break-up of the financial chain, the construction project was in debt for a large amount of work, which was completely suspended during the 2019 National Day.
Even the $550 million that the company spent on purchasing a 7nm high-end optical carcier from the Dutch ASML company left behind a 580 million mortgage a month after the grand entrance ceremony.
“Hon Qi, Qinghua”
The blood-hot slogan of the ceremonial entry ceremony also witnessed the end of the dream.
There is a saying in China:
Eat food, and go step by step.
Even slow and unstoppable. Record number: YX11DnpMGdr
I don’t know.
Keep your eyes on the road.
