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by shoo_pl 2196 days ago
Unless they pull a rabbit out of hat, they will not have a x86-64 emulator this time (for the same reasons why intel is struggling with speed/power efficiency ratio for years now) so it won't be that easy. It will be either ARM of Intel hardware and people will have to choose.
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> Unless they pull a rabbit out of hat, they will not have a x86-64 emulator this time (for the same reasons why intel is struggling with speed/power efficiency ratio for years now)

I don't understand what you mean - you absolutely can emulate AArch64 in AMD64. You can emulate any instruction set in any other instruction set.

They're saying it won't be fast or power-efficient.
Oh I'm sure they'll have one. It'll just be slow.