{"id":955,"date":"2006-05-15T13:16:03","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T18:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/way-to-rule-the-21st-century\/"},"modified":"2006-05-26T08:03:15","modified_gmt":"2006-05-26T13:03:15","slug":"way-to-rule-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/way-to-rule-the-21st-century","title":{"rendered":"Way to rule the 21st century"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s stories like this one<\/a> that keep me from taking China seriously. A U.S.-educated Chinese researcher returns to his homeland to develop innovative DSP chips for China’s internal market, in hopes of breaking China’s stereotype of a being a great at manufacturing and crap at innovating. He ‘develops’ a line of DSP chips called Hanxin, and gets regarded as a national hero.<\/p>\n

What happens? <\/p>\n

But late last year, according to these reports, the whistle-blowers came forward. Some colleagues who had a dispute with Mr. Chen began contacting the government. They claimed, according to the news reports, that migrant workers had simply scratched away the name Motorola from a chip and replaced it with Hanxin. Presumably, that early version of Hanxin was a foreign company’s chip, the specifications of which Mr. Chen or an associate could give to manufacturers to mass-produce under the Hanxin name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Repeat: He hired migrants to scratch out “Motorola” and write in “Hanxin”.<\/p>\n

Update: Looks like BusinessWeek is with me on this one<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s stories like this one that keep me from taking China seriously. A U.S.-educated Chinese researcher returns to his homeland to develop innovative DSP chips for China’s internal market, in hopes of breaking China’s stereotype of a being a great at manufacturing and crap at innovating. He ‘develops’ a line of DSP chips called Hanxin, … <\/p>\n

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