Maybe nobody will notice

EETimes.com – Report: Chinese scientist fired for faking chip development — Here’s a funny story about a Dean of a Chinese University defrauding China and expecting to get away with it. What’s wrong with this picture? It either says a lot of fraud is going on or this guy was an idiot. You tell me.

The Hanxin 1 chip was announced in 2003 and followed by several subsequent versions. At the time of their introduction, the Hanxin chips were hailed as a milestone in China’s efforts to develop its own intellectual property. They were also cited as evidence that Shanghai was on its way to becoming a global centre of chip design and production.

The chip he was passing off as his own was actually a Freescale product with his label. He must have figured that nobody would notice.