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Which would only be an issue for the next 20 years at most. I suspect we won't run out of native x86 processors in that time frame. Regardless, complete emula
by comex 7y ago
Which would only be an issue for the next 20 years at most. I suspect we won't run out of native x86 processors in that time frame.
Regardless, complete emulators exist today, and Intel hasn't sued anyone over them so far. Intel did threaten to sue Microsoft over Windows-on-ARM's x86 emulator do so a few years ago [1], but that doesn't seem to have gone anywhere, and even if it did, it's unlikely anything would happen to open-source emulators.
[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/09/intel_sends_arm_a_shot_across_bow/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/09/intel_sends_arm_a_s...