A few years ago I reed a comment on HN mentioning that NEC at the time had a product capable of reverse engineering the microcode of any CPU and that the tech w

A few years ago I reed a comment on HN mentioning that NEC at the time had a product capable of reverse engineering the microcode of any CPU and that the tech was later sold off to another company who was into the business of emulation. Not sure how much truth there could be in this or if it's just a good sounding tech legend based on this lawsuit but if anyone has any details on this story that would be great.