Recently, some netizens on the Internet complained that some of Xiaomi's chip technology may have been stolen from Huawei.
To this end, the official blog of Xiaomi Group also issued a statement to refute rumors, explaining this matter.
I was a little confused for a while, so I carefully studied the ins and outs of this matter, and found that this matter is really a bit tortuous and funny, so I'm going to let you hear about it.
Xiaomi has an investment company called Hanxing Venture Capital*** In 2022, it cost 3250,000 yuan invested in a company called Zunpai Communication Technology (Nanjing)** accounted for 982,337% of the shares.
In Xiaomi's explanation, it has been made clear that this is only a financial investment, and Xiaomi is neither the earliest investor, nor the largest investor, nor the investor who has played a dominant role in several rounds of financing.
And Xiaomi does not participate in the company's operation and management, purely to see that the other party's chip seems to be doing well, and then give the other party a little money (3250,000), I hope that after the other party becomes bigger and stronger, it can make some money, after all, Xiaomi has invested in more than 400 companies in China, including dozens of chip companies, this kind of behavior is normal.
I never thought that this honorable enterprise overturned.
In August this year, Huawei's Shanghai HiSilicon Technology sued Zunpai Communication Technology (Nanjing)** and applied for pre-litigation property preservation, freezing the deposit of 95 million yuan.
According to HiSilicon Shanghai, former HiSilicon executives Zhang, Liu, and others founded Zunpai after leaving their jobs, and then used high salaries and equity inducements to induce a number of HiSilicon employees to leave their jobs and join Zunpai, and let these people obtain HiSilicon's chip technology through excerpts and screenshots, and apply these technologies to Zunpai's chips.
According to the appraisal, there are 40 technical points in the chip technology infringed by Zunpai, which are more than 90% identical with the secret points of HiSilicon's trade secrets, constituting substantial sameness.
Shanghai Economic Investigation ECID
That's the thing, it's very simple to say, that is, the chip company invested by Xiaomi stole Huawei HiSilicon's chip technology. So netizens complained that Xiaomi stole Huawei's chip technology, and said that it had a nose and eyes, and the more he said it, the more outrageous it became.
Seriously, I don't dare to agree with this logic, after all, Zunpai was first led by Gaorong Capital in 2021, and Jiangbei Jiakang Technology followed the investment.
In 2022, when the financing was carried out again, there were many investment institutions involved, and Xiaomi only participated at this time, in addition to Hushan Capital, Skyline Capital, Jiayu Capital, Haiwang Capital, a subsidiary of Shanghai Science and Technology, Mercedes-Benz Information and other well-known institutions participated, Xiaomi only came out of 3250,000 yuan, which is also very small, and the proportion of shares is also small.
Xiaomi, as an investor, saw that this company was so popular, so many big institutions were investing, and wanted to participate, take a sip of soup, never thought that he was the same as other institutions, he was deceived and became a victim, and finally everyone complained that Xiaomi was a thief and drunk.
It can only be said that many people have really spared no effort to suppress Xiaomi for the sake of black millet, and anything can be pulled on millet.