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Abishek_Muthian on April 20, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple said Qualcomm’s tech was no good, but privat...

Yes, Mac ARM chips are likely to feature some x86 emulation.

On a side note, I wonder about the patent dynamics regarding x86 & x86-64 emulation.

When Microsoft & Qualcomm announced snapdragon powered Windows 10, intel gave a 'not-so-subtle' threat to Qualcomm regarding patents for x86 emulation[1]. MS, still released the model anyways.

I guess, Apple has enough leverage to negotiate patents for x86(intel),x86_64(AMD) emulation.

TazeTSchnitzel on April 20, 2019 | [–]

Both Intel and ARM will tell you that their patents are required.

(Questionable if that's true.)

judge2020 on April 22, 2019 | [–]

> x86 emulation[1]

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