Before revision: During the hearings that led to enactment of the SCPA, chip industry representatives asserted that a pirate could for 10,000 copy a chip design that had cost its original manufacturer upwards of 100,000 to design.
After revision: During the hearings that led to enactment of the SCPA, chip industry representatives asserted that a pirate could copy a chip design for 100,000 in 3 to 5 months that had cost its original manufacturer upwards of 1 million to design.