[Info-vax] Chinese Alpha?

[David Froble]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

Unless the save it in the "circular file" Samsung should have a bunch of details on Alpha.