[Info-vax] Chinese Alpha?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/29/2012 2:50 PM, David Froble wrote:
> 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.
>>
>
> Unless the save it in the "circular file" Samsung should have a bunch of
> details on Alpha.

Yes. But I doubt that they will sell to the Chinese.

Arne