Re:Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger
by alganet on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @11:16PM
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Let's not walk around in circles. We already estabilished that the chip was designed to facilitate the transition.
What you're saying is exactly what I'm saying. Having that x86 translation layer helped them sell macs. It doesn't matter if it is not needed now (it is needed now, otherwise it would have been removed).
So, yes. Apple has a popular new band in town. But they still need to play some x86 covers to sell tickets.
As I said, they have a good plan, but they're _not there yet_.
When they'll be? When x86 translation is not shipped anymore. It's rather simple.
It's mostly something that was needed in the first few years so you could run Chrome and Photoshop, but those have been ported now. It's mostly useful for running WINE but that's not super common outside games.
That said, a binary recompiler has a lot of uses once you have one: https://valgrind.org