[wyldfire]

Lunacy? Nah, the vast majority of software that regular people use is massively I/O bound. For the stuff that isn't (photoshop, e.g.), it will get ported. All of those non-photoshop apps will work just fine under emulation. Chrome and Edge will be ported, they'll work just fine.

I predict that this will have a negligible impact on PC games. They're CPU/memory/GPU bound and will not work well under emulation. They're not likely to get ported. But gamers are not the target market for this product.

[davrosthedalek]

In the end it's an hen and egg problem -- you need widespread adoption of the hardware to get software ported, but also widespread porting of the software to get the hardware adopted. And intel/amd will fight hard. As long as they can instill v fear that maybe the program I'm using, or the one I want to use next week/month/year won't run, people will flog to x86. It doesn't matter so much how real that problem is, it only needs to be perceived as a problem.

[TheCoreh]

AFAIK Photoshop uses the GPU via DirectX, so it should work fine

[scholia]

Microsoft has already shown Photoshop running in the emulation and it boots OK. Don't know how much load it will carry but it will run.