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Intel's Itanium Will Get x86 Emulation

Posted by timothy on from the for-all-the-backwards-x86-users dept.

pissoncutler writes "Intel has announced that they will be releasing a software emulation product to allow 32-bit x86 apps to run on Itanium Processors. According to these stories (story 1, story 2), the emulator is capable of the x86 performance of a 1.5Ghz Xeon (when run on a similar speed Itanium.) Who said that no one cared about x86 anymore?"

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  1. IBM PPC 970? huh? by linuxislandsucks · · Score: 0, Troll

    Has anyone ever read the 970 spec? It snot a CPU for desktop computers people!

    The 64 bit cpu from IBM that Apple is looking at is not repeat not 970!

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