I would go so far as to say that modern CPUs are emulators, not even VMs. Something like 20% of the die area is devoted to instruction decoding.
It's the only reason I'm interested in RISC-V or advanced arm stuff. Even there's a metric fuckton more effort going into the latest Intel x86_64 chip, there's a lot of silicon left on the table.
It's the only reason I'm interested in RISC-V or advanced arm stuff. Even there's a metric fuckton more effort going into the latest Intel x86_64 chip, there's a lot of silicon left on the table.