Shanghai Jiaotong University told Xinhua News Agency Friday that the Hanxin computer chip series are fake and the state-funded chip research is fraudulent, and a leading scientist has been sacked.

According to a government-organized investigation, Chen Jin, who was heading a team in the research, committed fraudulence in developing the Hanxin chips for digital signal processing.

Chen, who was dean of the Micro-electronics School of Shanghai Jiaotong University, was found cheating technological appraisal teams from the government, the university, Shanghai municipal government and relative ministries that put public funds in his research project.

Shanghai Jiaotong University has announced to remove Chen from his post as the dean and his professorship.

The Ministry of Science and Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission have announced to stop further financing Chen's research and development projects.

The title of the Changjiang Scholar and the remunerations for Chen was recalled by the Ministry of Education.

(Xinhua News Agency May 12, 2006)