@DaleGribble88@programming.dev to Gaming@beehaw.orgEnglish • 1 year agoIntel's ditching the 'i' in 'Core i5/i7/i9' and will stop calling out chip generationswww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up198arrow-down10cross-posted to: hardware@lemmy.ml
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minus-square@Hexorg@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoIsn’t there a speculation that Intel CPUS are actually RISC chips with microcode emulating x86?
minus-squareinterolivarylinkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-21 year agoIt’s not speculation, it’s verified fact ever since the Pentium 6 in the mid-90’s. See eg this or this
minus-square@Hexorg@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoAh my bad, I did a quick search before commenting and couldn’t find anything concrete.
Isn’t there a speculation that Intel CPUS are actually RISC chips with microcode emulating x86?
It’s not speculation, it’s verified fact ever since the Pentium 6 in the mid-90’s. See eg this or this
Ah my bad, I did a quick search before commenting and couldn’t find anything concrete.