[Info-vax] Chinese Alpha?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/29/2012 10:44 PM, David Froble wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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?

If there is a commercial market then Samsung would want to sell
the chips themselves.

If there is a non commercial market, then I don't think South Korea
will sell to the closest ally of North Korea.

Arne