A researcher was found to have fabricated chips, and not in the good sense of the word. The BBC has the story:

China’s Xinhua state news agency said that the Hanxin digital signal processing chips were not based on research carried out by Mr Chen. Nor could the chips carry out the functions, such as reading fingerprints or playing MP3 files, that they were supposed to, it reported.

Ironic, I guess, that a chip for fingerprint en/decoding was faked. Did the researcher think he would never be caught? Often it is the high-profile nature of crime, backed by growing greed, that leads to its undoing. The story also has the potential effect of showing that the Chinese authorities are trying to crack down on copyright infringement, although it seems more likely that they were upset about a poor return on investment.