How would/does reverse engineering work?

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Say we found an artifact or piece of technology that wasnt created by humans. How would we go about reverse engineering it? How do technology companies reverse engineer competitors ideas?

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Voice from the past: In the late 80’s Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) released its 3rd major CPU chip, the CVAX. It was a CMOS version of an earlier MOS VAX (32 bit CPU) chip.

We knew that Russia was into reverse engineering DEC chips so, on the top layer of metalization this was printed : “CVAX, for those that care enough to steal the very best” which was also written in cyrillic.

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