[Info-vax] Chinese Alpha?

[David Froble]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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
> 

That an interesting statement.

I'd really doubt that Samsung has any future plans for the Alpha.  If so, they wouldn't 
have abandoned it.  So, if someone offers them several million for something they don't 
want, I'd be interested to know why anyone wouldn't take the money?

Not that I know if they really have anything to sell.  The license agreement, or whatever, 
might preclude disclosing certain information.  Most likely, they threw out all that old 
useless stuff.