Hanxin
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Hanxin (Chinese: 汉芯; Pinyin: Hànxīn) is the name of a digital signal processing (DSP) microchip. A Chinese professor, Chen Jin, claimed to have developed the chip in 2003. Chen Jin was a professor at the prestigious Jiaotong University in Shanghai. The Hanxin 1 was reportedly the first DSP chip to have been wholly developed in China.
[edit] Exposure
At the beginning of 2006, an anonymous user in a popular Chinese internet forum Tianya Club wrote an article about the forgery of this DSP chip with very detailed references. Later various Chinese medias including Ming Pao, a Hong Kong newspaper, claims that various ministries of the Chinese government have been investigating the Hanxin, and Chen may have duplicated a Freescale DSP from the West. Ming Pao claimed on 2006-03-14 that the investigation had determined that the claims by Chen were exaggerated, and that the investigation was continuing.
On 2006-05-12, the China News Service reported that Chen's research was faked and the Hanxin project had been canceled.
