More bad news for Imagination Technologies compliments of Apple!

[smeyer0028]

rhueber,

For the right price any IC may be reverse engineered down to the transistor level, in fact some companies have that as their business plan.

https://www.iacr.org/archive/ches2009/57470361/57470361.pdf

Governments reverse engineer by obtaining the Verilog net list one way or the other.

 

[Daniel Payne]

smeyer0028,

I'd be interested to learn of a case where a government obtained a proprietary Verilog netlist without the permission of the owners.