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Speculations Intel's Next Generation

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the boldy-go-somewhere-slightly-different dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Inquirer speculates about the next generation Intel chip. It's low power, 64 bit, multi core (up to 16?) and the real reason for the Apple switch."

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  1. Rosetta by shmlco · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If a VLIW X86 processor had a "native" mode, one would have to wonder if Apple's Rosetta technology could compile directly to it instead of X86. I mean, it would seem dumb to JIT-compile to X86, which in turn is translated to VLIW.

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