[Info-vax] Chinese Alpha?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/28/2012 6:30 AM, JF Mezei wrote:
> 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.

If they get IP *incl.* various internal design documentation, then
it could certainly be valuable.

Arne