[Info-vax] Chinese Alpha?

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In article <4f9e19a9$0$10856$c3e8da3$dbd57e7 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>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 ?

Here's a new hand-held chinese Alpha. <http://tinyurl.com/Hand-Held-Alpha>
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