[albeva]

Competition yes, but I'd prefer from AMD rather than a different CPU architecture.

[paulftw]

Putting out two fires simultaneously means fewer resources are spent on each individual one.

I could even fantasize about a scenario where Intel: "if you launch an ARM laptop we'll raise our prices" Microsoft: "fine, we will switch to AMD"

[frandroid]

Isn't AMD emulating x86 over RISC anyway?

[Hamcha]

as is Intel, I don't think there has been a true x86 CPU in a while

[0xFFC]

I did hear this from my Prof in our university too, where can I find information about this?

[phoenix3200]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcode

[bobsam]

I think you were thinking of microarchitecture, microcode is related but probably not what parent meant.

Information about Intel internal architectures is highly confidential, but there are remotely related technologies that are generic and public, for example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_renaming

[phoenix3200]

Nah, Tomasulo and all that jazz (microarchitecture) is about improving performance once you've got a defined instruction set.

Microcode (which is one of those highly confidential things that both Intel and AMD hold close and dear) is about doing an on-the-fly CISC to RISC transformation because you realized that the legacy x86 ISA is an absolute pain to handle (but you aren't willing to give it up).