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Wasn't "x86 emulation" basically the WinChip's and Cyrix's strategy in the late '90s-early '00s? I don't remember that ending too well, unfortunately...

• monocasa 8y ago
  No, they were real x86 cores. No emulation.
• Iwan-Zotow 8y ago
  No, they were "real" x86 chips you're probably thinking about Transmeta
  • Symmetry 8y ago
    Which has returned from the dead as NVidia's ARM emulating Project Denver.
    • CalChris 8y ago
      Denver started out as X86 but then were scared away by Intel legal and switched to ARMv8 with an architecture license from ARM.
  • frabert 8y ago
    Yep, my bad, it was Transmeta indeed
• happycube 8y ago
  WinChip (Centaur) did break x86 instructions into RISC-like ones in hardware - which is pretty much what AMD and intel have been doing since the mid-90's themselves.
• zvrba 8y ago
  Itanium emulated x86 as well, and didn't go too well either.