[Info-vax] Chinese Alpha?

[JF Mezei]

Would gaining access to the Alpha IP but without the original Alpha
engineers be worth it ?

After all, what so many corporations forget, is that their biggest asset
are the employees.  With the original Alpha engineers now dispersed at
various chip companies, it would be quite the steep learning curve for
someone to buy the rights for Alpha, hire some newbie team and get them
to essentially reverse engineer Alpha so they can understand it enough
to start to develop it further.

On the other hand, if they have people with experience in reverse
engineering chips, then this could be child's play for them.