Scrubbing chips

Story here and here. Is this sleazy, or what?

Jiaotong University in Shanghai said late on Friday it had fired Chen Jin, dean of the Microelectronics School, for faking research behind a series of chips for digital signals processing. [..] Mr Chen had taken chips produced by Freescale Semiconductor, formerly a unit of Motorola, and then used low-paid migrant workers to scrub its trademarks off and replace them with that of Hanxin. [..] Mr Chen’s own project had received Rmb114m ($14.2m) for research to develop the Hanxin chips.