Join the discussion
Write your take first — we'll ask for email only when you're ready to publish.
- Hacker News
- I’m surprised they’ve decided to do it on Z/Arch before POWER. The Visas of the world must have really wanted it!
EDIT: d’oh, of course it’s so that they can sell more Linux LPARs.
by nxobject - "a base frequency above 5.7 GHz" and 36MB L2 caches.
Also, I'm curious if there are any other dual/multi-ISA architecture chips that are really different and not just 64 bit extensions or things like THUMB.
I found a 1994 patent[0] from Samsung for a Dual-instruction-set architecture CPU with hidden software emulation mode.
IBM developed the PowerPC 615[1] that had either had an x86 core onboard, or it could translate x86 instruction into PowerPC ones. But it wasn't released.
by sillywalk