Researchers argue that ‘at least 40%’ of the bloated x86 ISA could be removed and emulated to improve CPU efficiency
via dl.acm.org
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The x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. We’ve had people declaring the impending ascent of Arm or RISC-V for years now, and the market hasn’t budged. By and large, people still want to buy Intel and AMD systems running x86 Windows. So, maybe what’s needed isn’t replacement but reform, and […]