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Thomas Varlan, dismissed all charges
against Hu, saying that, “even assuming
Hu intended to deceive about his affiliation
with that second university, there is no
evidence that Hu intended to harm NASA,”
according to an Associated Press story.
China’s initial thrust in semiconductors has been manufacturing
No scheme to defraud NAND and DRAM memory. Changxin Memory Technologies, (for-
“Without intent to harm, there is no merly Innotron Memory), shown, is one of the country’s largest
memory providers. The fab is in Hefei, Anhui, China.
‘scheme to defraud’,” judge Varlan wrote,
quoting a necessary element of the wire semiconductors; assembled 35% of the
fraud charges. world’s electronics; accounted for 30%-
70% of the world’s televisions, PCs and
He added that NASA got the research from mobile phone exports and consumed one-
Hu that it paid for, and there was no evi- fourth of all semiconductor-enabled prod-
dence that Hu took any money from China ucts, the SIA reports.
or had anyone in China work on the proj-
ects. At the time of the dismissal, Hu had 7.6% of total chip sales
already served 18 months of house arrest. Currently, the SIA noted in a July 2021 re-
port, the domestic Chinese semiconductor
The MIT Review said, “Despite its stated industry accounts for only 7.6% of total
mission, The China Initiative hasn’t found global chip sales. Chinese semiconductors
much success in cadching spies or coun- are primarily discretes, low-end logic and
tering technology theft.” Only about one- analog chips.
third of the 77 cases have resulted in
convictions. The report says despite its tiny, but grow-
ing semiconductor industry, the country
Grant fraud possesses some “notable strengths”: It
Quoting the MIT Review study, NBC news is already a global leader in outsourced
said, “There has been an increase of grant assembly, packaging and test. China’s
fraud cases centered on academics who OSATs hold more than 38% of the total as-
fail to disclsoed financial ties to Chinese sembly and test outsourcing market.
entities on grant applications and conflict
of interest forms — a federal requirment. China has made its intentions clear: It
wants to be the top provider of semicon-
From its centuries-old agragrian roots, ductors to the world.
China has emerged as a mighty dragon.
It’s the world’s largest manufacturing hub, Where does this leave the China Initiative?
according to an SIA White Paper. For every arrest under this law, China
need only look back thousands of years to
For example, the PRC produces 36% of the strategies and tactics spoken by Gen.
theworld’s electronics — including smart Sun Tzu.
phones, computers, cloud servers and
telecom infrastructure. “Patience is the greatest virtue,” the great
general said, something the Chinese pos-
In 202, China imported $378 billion in sess in abundance.
