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by sjwright 2998 days ago
I suspect if Apple designs a desktop CPU, performant x86 emulation will be a key design criteria. I know very little about CPU design, but I imagine it would be possible to have hardware optimisations for x86 emulation just like we have today for video codecs.

Or even further they could bake a "rosetta" into the chip's microcode and have their CPU natively support the x86 instruction set along with ARM or whatever they come up with.