July 3, 2006
ANYONE CAN ASSEMBLE PARTS, ONLY WE INNOVATE (via Tom Morin):
Two chip scandals set back China's IT industry (Wu Zhong, 7/04/06, Asia Times)
China's efforts to design its own computer microprocessors suffered another major setback when the state-supported research and development (R&D) project for the Arca-3 embedded CPU (central processing unit) chip was interrupted because of suspected embezzlement of research funds.The crisis in the Arca-3 project was exposed just weeks after the "Hanxin chip" scandal erupted, leading to the disgrace of a star chip designer, Chen Ji of Jiaotong University in Shanghai. Chen's Hanxin chip, a digital signal processing chip hailed as a "breakthrough invention" by the Chinese government, turned out to be simply a copy of a US design.
Patent infringement is their industry. Posted by Orrin Judd at July 3, 2006 8:24 PM
Your headline is at tad xenophobic, no? Irony, thy name is ...
Posted by: ghostcat at July 3, 2006 9:30 PMActually, the opposite. We need fear none of the regimes we're supposed to fear because they organize their states/societies so poorly they can't rival us.
Posted by: oj at July 3, 2006 9:34 PMDepends on what the meaning of "they" is. If you mean "regimes" you'll get no argument here. But immigrants don't become motivated and creative just by moving here. They had those qualities first. Where they used to live.
Posted by: ghostcat at July 3, 2006 9:44 PMYou're confusing your we's with they's.
Posted by: oj at July 3, 2006 10:01 PMWe, the peoples.
Posted by: ghostcat at July 3, 2006 10:20 PM"Chen's Hanxin chip ... turned out to be simply a copy of a US design."
IIRC, it wasn't a copy - he had his technicians scrub the markings off U.S. chips and relabel them.
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at July 4, 2006 12:40 AM
Genius can't soar without open skies. Happy Birthday to us all.
Posted by: erp at July 4, 2006 8:17 AM