Introduction- "Some things are not weighed four or two times, and if they are weighed, they can't be beaten by a thousand pounds." - "Daming Dynasty 1566".
Under the Sino-US game, many Chinese people suddenly found that the chip was so important: without it, ren Zhengfei, who was angry, could not make a mobile phone, and the missiles of the emperor Putin were not accurate.
China's annual imports of chips are twice that of oil, reaching 1.5 trillion yuan per year, and what is even more fatal is that our chip dependence on foreign countries is as high as 90%. Domestic public opinion is surging and we cannot rush to sanction the "light of the treasure island" TSMC.
What is even more difficult for the Chinese people to accept is that the media recently interviewed Liu Deyin, chairman of TSMC, when asked, "If Taiwan is controlled by the mainland by force, will China gain the dominance of the semiconductor industry", Liu Deyin's answer, although very tactful, is actually very hurtful, "TSMC is a fine and complex factory, even if we give them the drawings (Chinese mainland), they can not operate normally."
The country is actually very far-sighted and prophetic, as early as the early days of the founding of the people's republic of China began to vigorously develop the integrated circuit industry. The cumulative investment has exceeded 20 trillion yuan. But this industry is almost a replica of China's men's football team: there are few world-class stars, and they don't even have the opportunity to participate in the World Cup qualifiers.
Looking back at history, we will be sad to find that the dangling death knife across our necks may not have been put by the opponent; The same story, so and so on, is constantly being reworked, but with a slight change of lines.
NO 1: Chen Jin – The shadowless leg of "Kung Fu" kicked and broke the backbone of the Chinese chip
Chen Jin's "Hanxin" has changed the history of Chinese semiconductors, or changed the trajectory of China's current scientific and technological development. "I don't know if there is a Han (core), but on Wei Jin."
It is a story full of magic and nonsense, almost comparable to Stephen Chow's famous work, "Kung Fu". Chen Jin used 20 yuan to hire migrant workers to grind off the Motorola characters and trademarks on the surface of the chip with sandpaper, and then print the words and trademarks of "Hanxin No. 1"; He then received the title of National Outstanding Scientist and the government's scientific research grant of 110 million yuan.
Unfortunately, Chen Jin's heavy kick "Rulai No Shadow Leg" broke the backbone of the Chinese chip.
1 Chen Jinqiren - a college entrance examination winner from Putian, Fujian Province
Chen Jin was born in 1968, and the college student in the 80s was still the "proud son of heaven". That is a college entrance examination admission rate of less than 1%, as for the admission of key universities is even more of a dragon phoenix. After graduating from Tongji University, this well-to-do student also went to the United States to study, and received a Doctor of Computer Engineering degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1997.
According to his own disclosed resume: After graduation, he was hired as a senior chief engineer and chip design manager by the headquarters of Motorola Semiconductor, a world-renowned high-tech company, during which he led the development of a number of new products for SOC system integration chips. In 2001, Chen Jin entered Shanghai Jiaotong University as the dean of the School of Microelectronics and the director of the Chip and System Research Center, and was appointed as the chief designer of the "Hanxin Project" in the 863 program.
In February 2003, the "Hanxin No. 1" press conference, which was highly anticipated by China's scientific and technological circles at that time, was held in Shanghai, and the main leaders of the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Information Industry and the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and the Science and Technology Commission poured out. The appraisal expert group composed of many well-known academicians and the heads of the chip team of the "863 Plan" reviewed Hanxin-1. Surprisingly, in the case of the number of pins of Hanxin No. 1 is 144, which is less than the usual chip pins, the jury will announce that the mainland chip has made a historic breakthrough, and we have an independent chip!
"Hanxin No. 1" flat land thunder, Chen Jin successfully declared more than 40 research and development projects in various fields of various departments of the state. Subsequently, Hanxin No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 have also come out, they followed the international most advanced level, applied for 12 national patents, got more than 100 million yuan of special funds for the project, encouraged by this Jiaotong University and the country's total investment in the Hanxin project is as much as 1.1 billion yuan. You know, 1.1 billion yuan in the early 80s may be about 10% of the entire national scientific research fund.
2 Hanxin counterfeiting process - migrant workers use sandpaper to grind out China's first piece of "Hanxin No. 1"
The emergence of Hanxin No. 1 has given a shot in the arm for China's chip industry; In the same period, the association also became the "egg under the red flag" of the "technology, industry and trade" discussion under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The entire Chinese science and technology community is permeated with a kind of youthful ignorance and expectation.
Until the beginning of 2006, on the BBS of Tsinghua University's Mizuki Tsinghua, there was an article called "Hanxin Insider", and the author of the post was one of the four-member R&D team of "Hanxin No. 1" that year. At first, this post was only concerned in the irrigation area, and later due to the author's special identity and the influence of Tsinghua University, it gradually attracted the tracking and attention of the media. With the further revelations of whistleblowers and the in-depth investigation of reporters, the inside story of Chen Jin and the scam of "Hanxin No. 1" has gradually become known to the world.
The cheating insider is so strange: Chen Jin, who immediately became a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, knew from the beginning that he could not design a chip, so he returned to the United States, and his old colleague downloaded the source code of a chip and the circuit design drawing of the design from the original company's internal server (it was later proved that this set of plagiarized circuit diagrams was not needed at all, it was superfluous), and this became the "Hanxin No. 1" source code that he submitted for review later. The chip is a physical object, and without a chip, it is still impossible to prove its research and development results. The "smart" Chen Jinzai bought a batch of Motorola's DSP56800 chips and hired a migrant worker from a decoration company to modify the chips. The migrant worker first used the fine sandpaper of decoration, patiently grinded off the original model represented by the chip, and then re-marked the chip with a new logo and model, "Hanxin No. 1" turned out to be out of the blue, the fly in the ointment is that the chip corresponding to the source code should be 208 feet, and this polished "Hanxin No. 1" is 144 feet - anyone who knows how to know the software can see the problem.
3 Chen Jin after the fraud was exposed - go unpunished and continue to open a company
What is even more magical is that after the "Hanxin" counterfeit was detected by the Public Security Bureau, Chen Jin was able to retreat with his whole body; And the officials and schools who applied for funding for him; The scientists and professors who stood for his "Dragon Core" review platform were also not implicated. Later, Chen Jin smoothly went to the United States, and then continued to open a new company in China as a well-known computer scientist.
"Zhihu" has been investigated, the "Jiaotong Daxin Co., Ltd.", which was president by Chen Jin, has now been renamed "Lingwei Technology Co., Ltd.", Chen Jin is the company's major shareholder, and the company's business scope is still chip design and sales; At the same time, the company is recognized as a high-tech enterprise and enjoys local financial subsidies. Hu Mouyong, the controller of Shanghai Zichen Technology Company, one of the shareholders of the company, was also the backbone of Chen Jin's "Hanxin" group and has now become the deputy dean of the School of Microelectronics of a well-known university.
As for the "Hanxin No. 1" press conference that year, the experts of the judging team spoke highly of the "Hanxin", as well as the praise of people from all walks of life and the deafening sound of clapping their hands and challenging the top of the world's science has long been remembered.
It is really surprising to shoot the case, a source code input corresponding to the chip is 208 feet, and this polished "Hanxin No. 1" is 144 feet, this kind of I/O problems that children who have learned Python can find, which household scientists, super first-class 985 school professors how to review the time did not find? Could it be that this national-level judging meeting will be conducted in a dimly lit private room in a KTV?
4 The "Hanxin" fraud caused China to miss the golden decade of the world's semiconductor development
After the "Hanxin" incident, the state's support for chip research and development projects was much less than before, and the people who were heartbroken by the "Hanxin" also talked about the discoloration of the "core", and the chip industry in the mainland was stagnant for thirteen years. And this decade or so is when Moore's Law is developing at its fastest: every 18 months, the function of the chip doubles and the area doubles, and the transistor directly enters the era of advanced processes of nanocomputing.
The continental process of less than 14 nanometers, which is now card necked by the United States, and the LITHOGRAPHY machine of ASML were all developed during this time.
Of course, the same period of Lenovo, that "without Lenovo, what will the world be like?" "The great company has long been unqualified to IPO on the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Board, and of course, it has nothing to do with the chip."
NO 2 "The Self-cultivation of a Core "Cheating" Actor" - Primary School Student Cao Shan's 100 Billion "Hongxin" Project
This is a completely different tide child from Chen Jin, who was born as a scholar- Cao Shan. Cao Shan is his pseudonym, from Anhui, his real name is Bao Enbao, only a primary school diploma, but packaged as the vice president of a Taiwan chip factory, through a shell company, while controlling Wuhan Hongxin and Jinan Quanxin, the main investment is Wuhan Municipal Government and Quanzhou Municipal Government, respectively, the investment amount is 128 billion yuan and 58 billion yuan; The investment entity in which Cao Shan participated was Beijing Guangliang Blueprint Technology Co., Ltd., a shell company in Beijing, with a registered capital of 100 million yuan and an actual capital of zero.
This guy is obviously the dragon phoenix among people, and even Jiang Shangyi, a big man in the Taiwan industry, was tricked by him into becoming the CEO of Quanxin. Cao Shan's method is usually to first set up an empty shell company that is convenient for capital operation, and then to win over the local government, and then the local government will dredge the relationship with the bank, and invite the various engineering construction companies and suppliers affiliated to the local government to participate together. They have also established some foreign companies to contract a large number of technical licensing, personnel training and other projects to carry out related party transaction arbitrage.
NO 3 There is no end in sight to the "core" deception list
It is almost impossible to list and rank one by one, because there are so many.
——China's "core" list
Let's recall those smoke-like "core" things together. You'll be amazed to find that we were once so close to the world's leading technology that even ASML, now the card-necked lithography machine, was once our follower.
What happened in just a few decades?
There is no answer to this question, or there can be no answer.