On the evening of December 24, the official Weibo spokesperson of Xiaomi went down in person to dispel rumors about the company's online remarks about a chip case.。

A spokesperson for Xiaomi said: "Recently, a large number of rumors and false reports about a chip company related to Xiaomi have circulated online.。For this irresponsible, completely false information, we have completed the evidence and reported to the relevant departments。"

A chip case involving Xiaomi

The cause of the incident came from a case detection article issued by the Economic Crime Investigation Corps of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau on its official public number on December 21.。The article writes that recently, under the command and deployment of the Ministry of Public Security and with the strong cooperation of the Jiangsu police, the Shanghai police successfully cracked a case of infringement of chip technology trade secrets, arrested 14 suspects and seized 7 servers storing infringing chip technology.。

The article mentioned that, after investigation, in February 2021, the former executives of the rights company Zhang, Liu and others in order to seek illegal benefits, after leaving the establishment of a technology company, in order to pay high salaries, equity inducements and other ways, induced a number of former rights company research and development personnel to change jobs to their company, and instructed these personnel before leaving the company through excerpts, screenshots and other ways to illegally obtain the rights company chip technology information,。

It has been identified that 40 technical points of infringing chip technology are more than 90% identical to the secret points of the right company's trade secrets, which constitute substantially the same.。Zhang's gang's theft led to the loss of the rights company's trade secret, which should be determined to have caused the rights company's loss based on the commercial value of the trade secret's research and development costs and the proceeds from the implementation of the trade secret.。

On April 19 this year, the Shanghai police, with the strong cooperation of the Jiangsu police, carried out a centralized network operation in Shanghai and the Soviet Union, successfully arrested 14 core members of the company involved, including Zhang, Liu and others, and promptly investigated and dealt with the infringing chips before they were put into production.。

At present, Zhang, Liu and other four major suspects have been arrested by the police on suspicion of infringing trade secrets, and the remaining 10 suspects have been released on bail pending trial in accordance with the law.。

As soon as this happened, it was rumored that the party involved in the case was Zun Pai Communication Technology (Nanjing) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zun Pai Communication") invested by Xiaomi, while the company that was infringed was Shanghai Haisi Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Haisi").。

Outside rumors are not without foundation。In August of this year, Hass applied to the court for pre-litigation property preservation, requesting the freezing of bank deposits of Zun Pai Communications and its subsidiaries totaling $95 million, or the seizure, freezing, and seizure of other property of corresponding value.。

According to the official public number information of Zunpai Communications, the company's founding team members from HiSilicon, Qualcomm, Marvell, Zhanrui and other chip manufacturers.。

However, it is worth noting that Xiaomi did not directly invest in Zunpai Communications.。According to public information, Hanxing Venture Capital Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Hanxing"), the fourth largest shareholder of Zun Pai Communications, is a wholly-owned shareholder of Xiaomi and began to invest in Zun Pai Communications in April 2022.。

In addition, there are rumors on the Internet, the police said "the remaining 10 suspects" in the director of Zun Pai Communications Jiang Wen, and Jiang Wen also has an identity, is the managing director of Xiaomi's strategic investment department.。It is because of the above all implicated, millet was involved in this chip case storm。

Xiaomi urgently "clear the relationship"

HiSilicon is a wholly-owned semiconductor company controlled by Huawei and is one of the top technology companies in the industry.。A week ago, Huawei Terminal BG CEO Yu Chengdong had alluded to Xiaomi mobile phone copying its technology, and now the company invested in Xiaomi has been rumored to infringe on HiSilicon's chip technology trade secrets.。For a time, Huawei millet two began to diffuse the "tit for tat" atmosphere。

As the affected party, millet also quickly made a clarification。Xiaomi said its Hanxing "participated in the financing of a chip company in 2022, a move that is no longer normal financial investment behavior."。"

Xiaomi further said that it has participated in several rounds of financing for the chip company, totaling a number of national and local government industrial development funds, as well as more than 20 financial investment institutions.。As one of the company's many shareholders, Xiaomi is neither the earliest investor, nor the largest investor, nor the investor who has dominated several rounds of funding.。At the same time, Xiaomi is not involved in the direct management and operation of the chip company, nor does it have any intellectual property or technical cooperation with the company.。

Public information shows that from April 2021 to the present, Zun Pai Communications has a total of 7 investor change records.。Among them, in the April 2022 investor change, Hanxing invested more than 320,000 yuan to become one of the shareholders of Zun Pai Communications, and was the only new investor at that time, with a shareholding ratio of 9.8%。After Hanxing's investment, Zun Pai Communications still has 3 investor change records.。

In addition, Hanxing is not just looking at Zun Pai Communications a corporate investment, the company has a record of direct and indirect foreign investment on more than 800 enterprises.。

In a statement, Xiaomi said: "Since 2017, we have invested in dozens of semiconductor companies with a number of investment companies or related national and local industrial funds.。These companies have played an important role in promoting the diversification of chip supply and the development of domestic technology, many of which have grown into important suppliers to many friends in the industry.。"

“We reiterate that Xiaomi attaches great importance to intellectual property rights and firmly opposes the theft of trade secrets by illegal means, but also firmly opposes unfair competition that misleads the public and maliciously belittles the legitimate goodwill of others by distorting the interpretation of news events, pulling and smearing.。”

As for Jiang Wen, an executive of Xiaomi, public information shows that there are as many as 100 companies associated with Jiang Wen, including Zun Pai Communications, and most of the positions held in these companies are directors.。

Xiaomi Automotive Technology Conference Coming Soon

The chip-stealing storm comes on the eve of Xiaomi's electric car launch。

According to Xiaomi's plan, the Xiaomi car will be launched in the first half of next year, and as time approaches, Xiaomi's interior is also beginning to be ready.。Last week, Xiaomi furiously fired three leaked auto department employees while saying it would pursue legal responsibility in accordance with the law。

The millet official quickly came out to refute the rumor, and the company's upcoming conference related。

At nine o'clock in the morning on December 25, Lei Jun, chairman of Xiaomi, announced that the Xiaomi Automotive Technology Conference will be held at 14 o'clock on December 28.。Lei Jun stressed that this conference "only technology, not products"。

When Officer Lei announced the Xiaomi Automotive Technology Conference, it was only 13 hours before the company and Zun Pai Communications "cleared the relationship."。Xiaomi issued an emergency statement before the car technology conference, in order to avoid the Xiaomi car has not yet been released into a secret scandal.。After all, if Xiaomi cars are caught in a chip theft scandal, it will have a significant impact on the company's reputation, and it will also have a negative impact on Xiaomi cars that have not yet been officially launched.。

Building a car is a major strategic layout of Xiaomi in recent years, and there is no room for error.。For the first technical conference of Xiaomi cars, the outside world is also quite concerned。

Lei Jun mentioned earlier that Xiaomi invested about 3,400 engineers in order to build the first electric car, and the entire R & D investment exceeded 10 billion, with ten times the human and financial resources invested by its peers.。

Smash so much money, millet is also quite strong。Lei Jun said that Xiaomi will completely redefine the technology stack of the automotive industry, which will be a major leap in the technical category of the automotive industry.。"This technology conference will be a great show of technology accumulation in the 13 years since Xiaomi was founded, and it will take a long time. I hope you will be prepared in advance."。"