Zunpai Communications stole Huawei's WiFi secretsThe matter is further fermented, because the company involved is Huawei and the field involved is chips, so it has attracted widespread attention from the society.
The CEO of Zunpai has been missing for several months, and the 14 people involved in the case have been arrested by Shanghai ** and seven servers stored with infringing chip technology have been seized, which is currently suspected of criminal offenses.
In this matter, the amount involved in the case should not be large, and the people involved are not much, but it is one of the most serious commercial theft cases in the technology circle in recent years, and at the same time, its nature is very bad and the impact is also very large, which is likely to have exceeded the imagination of many people.
This HuaweiHow good are HiSilicon's WiFi AP chips?？Why do they want to defy the law?
Those who are involved in this field may know that in the field of WiFi AP chips, the world is mainly controlled by four major manufacturers, namely Broadcom and Qualcomm in the United States, and MTK and Realtek in Wanwan Province.
The AP chip of this router is a bit like the base station chip of the cellular network. All devices are meant to be connected to this device.
Then it's a submodule here, for exampleSoftware, Digital, Baseband, RF and ModulesThe requirements are very, very high.
In the past, many of our routers were claimed to be domestically developed, but the real situation is generally that the external components and assembly are in China. The chips used in the core are basically purchased externally.
This WiFi AP chip can be compared to a data brain, on which all the networked data runs and must pass through itTransmission, distribution, relay
Therefore, as long as foreign manufacturers leave a back door at the bottom and want to eavesdrop or interrupt, they can think about the United States fighting Ilak back thenOperation decapitationFirst of all, the Internet and communication networks have been pinched, and this "first" is the fatal "first".
Therefore, this is a major matter related to our data security, and Huawei is currently a company that is very good at the bottom of communication in China.
Therefore, after years of R&D and a large amount of investment, Huawei HiSilicon has developed a truly domestic WiFi AP chip.
At this time, Zhang and Liu, former core technology executives of Huawei HiSilicon, discovered this business opportunity, and they chose to leave at the beginning of 2021 and established Zunpai Communications to focus on WiFi 6 chip business.
If you concentrate on chip research and development, it is the pride of our countrymen, and we should give a big thumbs up.
However, they have taken the wrong path, after the establishment of Zunpai, with high returns to induce the old company's R&D personnel to jump ship, let them steal Huawei's AP chip technology through excerpts, screenshots, etc.
What is surprising is that more than 10 days after the registration, some investors entered, and in more than a year, the attitude of a rising star was obtainedMultiple rounds, hundreds of millions of metersof financing.
This Zunpai once said in an interview that in the chip industry, it is not easy, and you must be prepared to sit on the cold bench, and you will be prepared to sit for 10 years.
No one expected that they would shorten the 10-year period of sitting on the cold bench in such a stealing way.
It's really:It's not that R&D can't afford it, but plagiarism is more cost-effective
After ** identification, the chips of Zunpai and HiSilicon have been40 technical points have more than 90% identity, it's basically a nail in the coffin.
Knocking on the blackboard, many people say to highlight the key points, that is:The investor of Zunpai is Xiaomi, the proportion of investment holdings is about 10 points, and it is indeed inextricably linked, of course, there is no definite evidence of this matter so far.
Xiaomi also stood up for the first time to issue an announcement to clarify.
The concern now is that it is not known how widespread this leak is, and that it is not as simple as stealing R&D results between two commercial companies.
Chip technology is one of the core strategies of our country, once these technologies outflow abroad, it will not only cause huge economic losses to chip companies, affect their R&D and innovation power, but also seriously affect the interests and security of our country.
If that were the case, these people would be the sinners of historyHow to punish them
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