Kinda. With Alpha, AMD got most of the scientists and Intel got all the IP. HyperTransport (and everything else copied from Alpha) was a cleanroom solution. I

Kinda. With Alpha, AMD got most of the scientists and Intel got all the IP. HyperTransport (and everything else copied from Alpha) was a cleanroom solution. Intel's Quickpath is closer to Alpha's tech (along with some claims that stuff like AVX came from upcoming Alpha SIMD designs). Alpha EV8 was planned to be very wide (8-issue) design with SMT and a massive SIMD unit. It was supposed to launch in 2004. Intel's chips didn't get that wide until Haswell in 2013.