Look up HPB and it’s relationship with Neo on steemit. This is what I found in the article.

—-The HPB chip R & D team is assembled from Huawei and Intel experts. HPB backed by former OKEx and Huobi Executives, and by a noble prize winning physicist. The CEO, Wang Xiao Ming, is a highly respected blockchain expert in China. He has published multiple books on blockchain technology. 8btc is an angel investor along with NEO, which is China's largest news source for cryptocurrency information. All of this showcases the promise to this team.

Additionally HBP is partnered with NEO, and will be the first blockchain in the industry to support NeoVM (NEO Virtual Machine). NEO helped HPB launch an AMA with NEO's community, you can read the results here: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/3v6AGGWmCAPR1wuLNgDonA