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		donarb on June 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple announces it will switch to its own processo... Rosetta. Apple knows processors, ARM is just a licensed instruction set.

donarb on June 22, 2020 [–]

To be clear, it's not a virtual machine. Rosetta translates x86 instructions to ARM instructions on the fly.

foobiekr on June 22, 2020 | [–]

I wonder if this is actually even related to the original Rosetta (which was actually an external vendor - QuickTransit by Transitive), acquired by IBM. Most of the Transitive team left IBM to go to Arm and Apple.

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