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Speculation: Which chips will Apple use?

panphage said:
I've heard people say that current Pentiums (4's and M's and all) are just RISC chips that somehow understand the x86 instruction set. But you'd have to ask an architecture specialist. Maybe go do some reading at Ars Technica. They get way into this stuff.
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I've heard something like that too.
My read on it is that it has a RISC like architecture under that emulates x86 instructions. Quite well I believe :)
I wonder if you could code directly to the RISC like "features"?
I wonder if this is the micro-ops thing?
 
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