If AMD is optimizing their processors for the purpose, they could well put a full ARM core (since they don't take up much die area), or just add specialized ins

If AMD is optimizing their processors for the purpose, they could well put a full ARM core (since they don't take up much die area), or just add specialized instructions to make it easier to translate ARM assembly. It seems like they are adding an ARM A5 core to some chips. This article speculates it's just for security, but it's a few months old: http://semiaccurate.com/2012/06/13/amd-puts-arm-cortex-a5-cores-in-its-cpus/ http://semiaccurate.com/2012/06/13/amd-puts-arm-cortex-a5-co...