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This story reminded me of an unrelated chip fraud case a FreeScale DSP chip was simply sanded down to remove the logos and rebadged as a Chinese invention.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/15/technology/15fraud.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanxinhttp://www.itworld.com/060515chipfraud
They've increased the speed of light in optical fiber... Not a vacuum... (which is c).In optical fiber, it's less than c. The posting makes too many fanciful assumptions.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light
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This story reminded me of an unrelated chip fraud case a FreeScale DSP chip was simply sanded down to remove the logos and rebadged as a Chinese invention.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/15/technology/15fraud.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanxin
http://www.itworld.com/060515chipfraud
They've increased the speed of light in optical fiber... Not a vacuum... (which is c).
In optical fiber, it's less than c. The posting makes too many fanciful assumptions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light