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Intel Dumps Iitanium's x86 Hardware Compatibility

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the back-to-the-drawing-board dept.

Spinlock_1977 writes "C|Net is running a story that Intel is going back to software x86 emulation on Itanium in order to reclaim chip real estate. (room for another 9MB of cache?) One notable quote about x86 emulation: 'Basically, no one ever used hardware-based IA-32 execution, so better to use the silicon for something else,' said Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff. 'Of course, basically no one uses software-based emulation either, but at least that doesn't cost chip real estate.'"

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  1. Re:x86: Intel's biggest mistake by pnewhook · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Come on, these alternate prefixes are just stupid. Using MB is not confusing at all.

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