[Info-vax] Chinese Alpha?

[JF Mezei]

David Froble wrote:

> I'd really doubt that Samsung has any future plans for the Alpha. 

Samsung now designs its own ARM chips for its mobile phones. (they are
not bigger than Nokia in the total mobile phone market).

The ARM guys design the cores, and various people including Samsung and
now Apple implement those designs for their chips.

Assuming that Samsung has full access to the Alpha IP, would this be of
use to them when implementing their ARM chips, or would the
designs/technilogies/ideas of Alpha apply only to work at a lower level,
done by ARM in england and and thus have no value to the "packaging"
done by Samsung ?