In 2018, a ban on "chips" opened the prelude to the trade competition between China and the United States. The small chip, but it is the indispensable "heart" of mobile phones and computers, which makes ZTE bend its eyebrows, greatly hurts Huawei's vitality, and chokes the throat of the fate of many manufacturers.
At the moment when Huawei is struggling to survive and China is struggling to find a "core", we will not forget that a few decades ago, there was such a person, who defrauded 1.1 billion scientific research funds and made China's chips stagnant for 13 years, he is Chen Jin, the creator of the "Hanxin" scam, and the knife handler of the chip dilemma.
"Father of Hanxin"
Chen Jin was born in 1968. In 2001, he received his Ph.D. in the United States and joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University. At that time, the 865 plan had just been introduced, and there was an urgent need for relevant talents who understood chips and made chips in China
Soon, Chen Jin took office and became the general person in charge of the "Hanxin" plan. As soon as he took office, he showed a "ruthlessness", and introduced the "four-year plan" with a golden knife, putting forward the grand goal of "two years of study, three years of alignment, and four years of transcendence". It has the fearless spirit of "iron man" Wang Jinxi.
Under the leadership of the "four-year plan", it took only 16 months for Chen Jin to produce the first fully self-developed chip "Hanxin No. 1" in China.
It adopts the internationally advanced 0.18 micron process at that time, and its performance level is enough to keep pace with the flagship new products on the market.
The success of "Hanxin" No. 1 shocked the whole world, and China, which has little involvement in the field of chips, successfully "overtook in the corner" in only one year, and walked in the forefront of the world's development.
At the "Hanxin" press conference, a number of academicians appraised the performance of "Hanxin No. 1" and said: "Hanxin No. 1" is China's self-developed and the first in China, and its performance has reached the international advanced level.
The affirmation of the country and academicians made Chen Jin a "national hero" admired by thousands of people for a while. Subsequently, Hanxin No. 2, 3, 4 and 5 also came out successively, and successfully applied for 12 national patents, and obtained nearly 1.1 billion national funds from Shanghai Jiaotong University.
Chen Jin's "rapid advance" is not without suspicion. After all, as a high-tech industry, the development of chip technology is inseparable from technology accumulation and related industries. Other industries are still exploring and developing, why can you Chen Jin develop at a high speed and stand out?
However, at this time, "Hanxin" is no longer as simple as a chip, it is "the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation", and it is "a milestone in the history of China's chip development".
"Falling out of the water"
Three years after the research and development of Hanxin, there was a "whistleblower" on the Tsinghua Forum, according to him, today's "Hanxin" are all fakes, and Chen Jin, the developer of "Hanxin", is a shameless and deceitful liar. It has been confirmed that the "whistleblower" who published the post of "Hanxin Shady" is the founder of "Hanxin No. 1".
"Hanxin" fraud, this news, soon caused an uproar in the society, the state urgently set up a relevant investigation team, after investigation, the investigation team painfully concluded: "Hanxin No. 1" fraud is true.
In fact, Chen Jin understood from the beginning that he couldn't make a chip himself—at least not now. As a "high-level student" majoring in electronics who returned from studying in the United States, Chen Jin knows very well that the development of chip technology is inseparable from technology accumulation and industrial support.
Now I have no technical guidance and no relevant materials. To create a "Chinese core" that benchmarks the international advanced level is tantamount to a fantasy and a dream. As a result, an evil thought emerged from Chen Jin's mind - fake!
In the days that followed, Chen Jin presided over the so-called "research and development work", and at the same time asked his younger brother in the United States to buy a batch of Motorola DSP56800 series chips. And this batch of chips is later known as "Hanxin No. 1".
Subsequently, Chen Jin found a migrant worker and asked him to use sandpaper to polish off the "Motorola" logo on the chip. Then use the machine to mark the "Hanxin" logo.
The chip in his hand has been transformed into a "Hanxin" developed by China. Who would have thought that the milestone of China's chips would come from the hands of illiterate migrant workers.
In May 06, Jiaotong University announced the investigation conclusions and handling opinions on the suspected counterfeiting of the "Hanxin" series of chips. admitted that Chen Jin was responsible for the development of the "Hanxin" series of chips and had serious academic fraud. "Hanxin" is actually a fake, and this exciting news instantly occupied the headlines of major newspapers.
This unprecedented scientific research scandal not only aroused the anger and condemnation of the masses, but also caused an unprecedented earthquake in the academic circle. Soon, leaders of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology and other departments gathered at Shanghai Jiaotong University and vowed to liquidate Chen Jin's actions.
So, when the school and the department came together and prepared to liquidate Chen Jin. Where is Chen Jin at this time? A: In the United States. As early as January 06, Chen Jin heard the news of the report. After packing everything in China, he ran away with money and moved to the United States in the name of academic exchanges.
Under the influence of Chen Jin, the domestic "chip industry" collapsed, and the masses did not dare to trust and invest in China. For a time, "chip research and development" has become a wound that China does not want to touch, dare not touch, and do not want to touch.
And the lag in the development of chips, after 13 years, turned into a boomerang and hit us hard.
Xiaoyao Extra-Illegal
What is infuriating is that Chen Jin, who deceived the world and stole his name and sought glory by fraud. Now he is still at large, and he has not even left the chip field that he is "familiar with".
According to the information on "Tianyancha", the predecessor of "Shanghai Lingwei Technology Co., Ltd.", which is now held by Shanghai Jiaotong University, is the "famous" "Shanghai Jiaotong University Hanxin Technology Co., Ltd."
In the list of shareholders of Shanghai Lingwei, Chen Jin's name is prominently listed, with a shareholding ratio of 10.5% and a subscribed capital contribution of 5.346 million yuan.
The Shanghai Lingwei, which is held by Chen Jin, is currently the major shareholder of "Shanghai Silicon Treasure Communication Technology Co., Ltd." and "Shanghai Silicon Chip Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.", with a shareholding ratio of 60% and 40% respectively.
Among them, Chen Jin himself directly holds 20% of the shares of Shanghai Silicon Intelligence. It can be seen that although Chen Jin is abroad, he has never forgotten to "suck blood" from the motherland and eat away at the development achievements of China's chip field.
What's even more infuriating is that Chen Jin is not the only one at large. Previously, it was revealed that Hu Liyong, one of the major shareholders of an electronic technology company, was the core member of Chen Jin's "Hanxin" team. Another founding member who has a close relationship with counterfeiting is now the deputy dean of the School of Microelectronics at a well-known university.
At the time of the "Hanxin" incident, more than 30 master's and doctoral students at Jiaotong University participated in the design of Hanxin and completed their academic papers accordingly.
As participants in the event, witnesses, it is impossible for them not to know the truth, but for their own interests, these "proud sons of the sky" choose collective silence.
Today, many of them are in high positions and have become "social elites" and "pillars of science" in the eyes of the people. Whether these "pillars" born from lies can hold up the sky of science? No one knows.
In addition, those academicians who passed unanimously by vote, the relevant departments that "gave the green light" all the way, and the media who went with the flow. They are undoubtedly accomplices of "Hanxin".
And their laughter and generous speeches have been blown away by the smoke and rain of time, and nothing has happened since then, and they are all happy.
There is a saying in the "Analects": "The tiger is out of the sheng, and the turtle and jade are destroyed in the coffin, whose fault is it?" Regarding the "Hanxin" incident, it is not difficult for us to see that this incident started because of one person, but it is far from the fault of one person.
In fact, things like Chen Jin were not uncommon in China before. At that time, people called this kind of behavior
In order to catch up with Britain and the United States in steelmaking, people took out the pots and pans in their homes; in order to achieve "10,000 catties per mu," people planted wheat in a field within a radius of several miles. The result of "releasing satellites" is that domestic productive forces will not advance but retreat.
It stands to reason that after suffering the same hardship, we should not do it again. However, as Hegel said, "The only lesson that man can learn from history is that he does not learn any lesson at all." ”
However, the concern about backward production has evolved into a collective rush for quick success and quick profit, and the collective's rush for quick success and quick profit has given greed an opportunity to take advantage of it. A variety of factors combined with each other and jointly promoted this amazing scam called "Hanxin".
Over the past few decades, affected by the Hanxin incident, China has tasted the bitter fruit of having no "core".
After 2015, China's chip imports exceeded 200 billion US dollars for several consecutive years, ranking first among the largest import commodities, and in 2018, the import volume climbed to 312 billion US dollars, accounting for two-thirds of the world's total chip output value.
After the Sino-US war and trade competition began, chips turned into a weapon of sanctions against the United States.
Fortunately, the US sanctions did not make China succumb, but became an opportunity for the development of Chinese chips.
From Kunpeng and Haiguang jointly winning the "big order" China Mobile, to SMIC, Unisplendour Zhanrui Science and Technology Innovation Listing, and then to the Loongson 3A6000 chip that was born.
China has changed its "core", and every step has been difficult and resolute. And we also have reason to believe that after "hard work, hard work", China's chip industry will be able to "move to endure and gain what it cannot", and we look forward to this day.
Epilogue:
From shocking the whole country and being admired by tens of thousands of people, to deceiving the world and stealing fame, leaving a stench for thousands of years. Chen Jin's life trajectory can be called twists and turns. As a returnee Ph.D., he should have forged ahead and put what he learned into scientific research: but he cheated and defrauded 1.1 billion research funds over the years.
And the "Hanxin" scandal he single-handedly created has buried the bright hope of China's chip industry. His deeds will one day be reconciled by the people and justice.