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Re:The iPad Pro's chip is not a big deal by signa11 on Saturday November 28, 2015 @01:11AM (#10640220)
> Newer Intel CPUs are even using RISC cores with wrappers for CISC functions because it is more efficient.

this has been going on for quite a while now, iirc approx 20 years or thereabouts...

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Re:The iPad Pro's chip is not a big deal by chisleu on Saturday November 28, 2015 @05:50PM (#10642856)
And x86 started ~20 years before that? Thanks for the info though.
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