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Intel's ditching the 'i' in 'Core i5/i7/i9' and will stop calling out chip generations (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 1 year ago by DaleGribble88@programming.dev to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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[–] Hexorg@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn’t there a speculation that Intel CPUS are actually RISC chips with microcode emulating x86?

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's not speculation, it's verified fact ever since the Pentium 6 in the mid-90's. See eg this or this

[–] Hexorg@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Ah my bad, I did a quick search before commenting and couldn’t find anything concrete.