[Info-vax] Chinese Alpha?

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:

(snip)
> 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 ?

Alpha is an ISA (instruction set architecture) originally
implemented about 20 years ago. The ISA may be applicable today,
but the details of the implementations likely aren't.

As far as I know, there is no reason Alpha couldn't be implemented
in current technology, and be successful in the market.

Now, it might be that some details of old Alpha implementations
could be useful in new designs, but most of the lower level
(gate level) ideas, as far as I know, wouldn't.

-- glen