From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   BGB  schrieb:   
      
   > Still sometimes it seems like it is only a matter of time until Intel or   
   > AMD releases a new CPU that just sort of jettisons x86 entirely at the   
   > hardware level, but then pretends to still be an x86 chip by running   
   > *everything* in a firmware level emulator via dynamic translation.   
      
   For AMD, that has happend already a few decades ago; they translate   
   x86 code into RISC-like microops.   
      
   See "The Anatomy of a High-Performance Microprocessor: A Systems   
   Perspective" by Bruce Shriver and Bennett Smith.   
      
   For a later perspective, see   
      
   https://github.com/google/security-research/blob/master/pocs/cpu   
   /entrysign/zentool/docs/reference.md   
      
      
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